[LINK] iPad/ebook news

[Jan Whitaker]

>Apple Adjusts, Clarifies iPad Release Dates
>Apple announced this morning that they will start taking pre-orders 
>in the US for the iPad on March 12, and the unit will arrive a few 
>days later than originally planned, on April 3. (That's for wi-fi 
>models; 3G units will come in late April.)
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>The company says that "all models of iPad will be available in 
>Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland 
>and the UK in late April."
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>In other device news, the WSJ reports on plans by Sony to introduce 
>"a portable device that shares characteristics of netbooks, 
>electronic-book readers and handheld-game machines" later this year 
>to compete with the iPad.
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>Author JA Konrath continues his series of posts reporting on his 
>progress selling some of his own books on the Kindle. "I'm currently 
>selling $1.99 ebooks at the rate of 170 per day. That means I'm 
>earning around $120 per day just sitting on my butt. If this trend 
>continues as-is, I'll earn $43,800 this year on previously published 
>short stories and novels that NY print publishing rejected. But I 
>don't expect this trend to continue as-is. I expect it to explode," 
>when Amazon doubles the royalty for such projects.
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