{"id":730,"date":"2006-07-26T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2006-07-26T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T00:02:04","slug":"ebook_ipod_rumored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/26\/ebook_ipod_rumored\/","title":{"rendered":"ebook ipod rumored"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"apple_ebook.jpg\" Engadget has it<\/a> from inside sources at Apple that a next-generation iPod is in the works with a larger screen and a full-fledged text reader:<\/p>\n

…two bits from separate, trustworthy insiders that Apple’s not satisfied merely vending Audible<\/a>‘s books-on-digital-audio solution. With the iRex iLiad and Sony PRS-500 Portable Reader both right around the corner, is it possible the next iPod might catch the eBook bug? We’d say the possibility is very real, since according to a source at a major publishing house, they were just ordered to archive all their manuscripts — every single one — and send them over to Apple’s Cupertino HQ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Audible, huh? Interesting. They got a toehold in the market with audiobooks, and may now be making the transition to ebooks.<\/p>\n

A separate trusted source let us know that the next iPod will have a substantial amount of screen real estate (as we’d all suspected), as well as a book reading mode that pumps up the contrast and drops into monochrome for easy reading. It’s no e-ink, sure, but a widescreen iPod would be well suited for the purpose, and according to our source, the books you’d buy (presumably through iTunes) won’t have an expiration…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d hope that such a device would have wifi, a web browser and an RSS reader that could be taken offline. I think that books will only be a part of the equation.
\nTeleread<\/a> has the ebook standards angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Engadget has it from inside sources at Apple that a next-generation iPod is in the works with a larger screen and a full-fledged text reader: …two bits from separate, trustworthy insiders that Apple’s not satisfied merely vending Audible‘s books-on-digital-audio solution. With the iRex iLiad and Sony PRS-500 Portable Reader both right around the corner, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,549,901,1629,1859],"tags":[2370],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-ebooks","category-ipod","category-rss","category-the_ideal_device","tag-ebooks-ipod-apple-rss-the_ideal_device"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}