A bright iPhone or iPad screen can be painful on the eyes, especially while reading in a dark room. With the latest version of iBooks for iOS, however, you can configure the app to automatically switch to the “Night” theme when appropriate, helping to ensure that you won’t end up looking at a glaring white screen in the wee hours of the morning. Here’s how to do it.
Apple on Thursday released the iOS 7 update for its iBooks app. The new design brings no new functionality, but updates every graphical element of the app to match the slick, flat design of the rest of the company’s latest mobile operating system.
Apple on Wednesday released the fifth developer beta of its upcoming OS X Mavericks operating system. It was quickly determined that iBooks, Apple’s eBook software and digital store, had finally made an appearance. We now have some images to share of iBooks on OS X Mavericks Beta 5 courtesy of a TekRevue reader: The developer who sent us the picture notes that some features, such as searching the iBookstore, do not yet work properly. As part of the latest iTunes beta,…
Last week’s news that Microsoft is considering a $1 billion buyout of the Nook eBook company it formed with Barnes & Noble is less surprising in light of data revealed today by research firm Statista. According to data from the Association of American Publishers, eBooks accounted for nearly 23 percent of U.S. publisher revenue in 2012. On the year, eBooks accounted for 22.6 percent of sales as a percentage of U.S. trade publishers’ net revenue, up from 17.0 percent in…
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