A couple of weeks back I noticed a banner within Apple’s iBooks for P.D James books. Normally such a banner takes you to an custom designed author page with a large selection of books. The P.D James banner took you to a page with just ONE title - The Acts of the Apostles. I checked back a few days later and … [Read more...]

Back in January I bought A Murder Of Quality from iBooks. Like a number of John le Carré’s novels it has since changed publisher and I’m no longer able to re-download it without paying again. On the surface that probably sounds quite fair, it’s easy to argue that the currently listed version isn’t the one I … [Read more...]

Let me start by applauding the FT on what looks like an excellent web app to replace its previous iPad/iPhone app. The background to the launch of the app is set out in our news story so I’ll skip past that and move on to why I think the FT is one of the few titles which will enjoy any real success with web … [Read more...]

I'm a pluralist kind of a guy, on the whole I think it's best to leave others to buy and use whatever kit they want for the job at hand. The only times I go out of my way to intervene is if a friend of relative is thinking about buying something I've had a bad experience with or know that someone else has. Not … [Read more...]