Assuming an iTablet will someday arrive from Apple — and expectations remain high that it will — it may have quite a lot of potential as an e-reader. But putting it in the same league as the Kindle or Sony Reader would be thinking small. If the iTablet does surface, it could very well usher in a whole new kind of textual media.
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The latest Apple tablet rumor isn’t about the hardware specifications of the so-called iTablet; it’s about the notion that Apple has been having secret talks with newspaper and textbook publishers. The talk has sparked a new question: Might an Apple iTablet change publishing forever?
Yes. Yes, it will.
That’s the short answer. But there’s more to it, of course. . . .
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