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Apple issued a press release this morning announcing that nine more countries have been added to the iPad’s accepted list. The press release states that people in the countries listed below can buy all models of the Apple iPad starting this Friday, July 23rd from Apple retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Oddly, it does [...]

Up until July 1st, Canada Day ironically (aka Dominion Day for all you anti-conformists out there), the Apple iBookstore was available for download in Canada, but the selection of books was limited to free classic ebooks in the public domain. Now, several major publishers are selling titles in Canada on the iBookstore, including Hachette, HarperCollins [...]

Version 1.1 of iBooks is now available for download from the iTunes store, and now works for any iPhone or iPod running the new iOS 4. The iBooks app has been out since April when the iPad first launched. And until now it was exclusive to the Apple iPad; you couldn’t even see what ebooks [...]

Borders just released their new ebook app for the Apple iPad and iPhone today in the iTunes store. The app is powered by Kobo and is pretty much exactly like the Kobo for iPad application, except everything has the Borders look and feel with red icons and menus. While investigating this story, I was checking [...]

Stanza is one of the most popular and versatile free ebook reading apps ever made, but when Amazon bought out Lexcycle, the makers of Stanza, everyone assumed Stanza would see no more improvements, and that appeared to be true since the Apple iPad was released and no new high-def Stanza app was released . . [...]

I find it interesting that Amazon continually refuses to divulge sales figures for the Kindles, and yet nobody can get Apple to shut up about their sales figures. Apple issued a press release today announcing that they’ve sold 2 million iPads in less than 60 days, which is pretty amazing considering the iPad has been [...]

Today marks the official release of the Apple iPad in 9 more countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Here’s a round-up of some news stories covering the Apple iPad release from around the web: Australia Tech-heads take the tablets as iPads finally go on sale – The AustralianApple estimated [...]

Yesterday Barnes and Noble finally released their eReader app for the Apple iPad. Here’s a page reviewing all its features, along with plenty of screenshots: B&N’s eReader iPad App.

Here's a look at international pricing for the Apple iPad. Region 16 16+3G 32 32+3g 64 64+3G US $499 $629 $599 $729 $699 $829 Europe 499 599 599 699 699 799 UK 429 529 499 599 599 699 Canada $549 $679 $649 $779 $749 $879 Australia $629 $799 $759 $928 $879 $1049 Thanks to the [...]

Apple issued a press release today confirming the release of the Apple iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28, with pre-orders starting on May 10th from the Apple Store. Additionally, Apple announced 9 more countries to get the iPad's release in July. These 9 countries [...]