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Apple lays off employees working on Books and News
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...ooks-and-news/
A shame. I imagine it probably doesn't impact too many people on MobileRead with all our dedicate e-readers, but I know a number of people whose primary reader is their iPad. It would be a bummer if Apple Books fell by the wayside. Last edited by Cactus Chef; Today at 01:04 PM. Reason: Reduce repetition of the word 'shame' |
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The Apple Books app is terrible. I only use it when I'm forced to.
We use Apple News, but there is so much about I dislike. I love having access to all the magazines, but reading news stories is frustrating. We pay extra for News, but are still subjected to multiple ads per story, some of which are auto-playing video ads. And it is extremely left-leaning. Last edited by Deskisamess; Today at 01:52 PM. |
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Oh come on. The price-fixing thing is very old news, it should not be cited as a reason for cutbacks now.
Clearly services revenue growth is tied to subscriptions, not book sales, but again that does not explain cutbacks now. Book sales are not reported/broken out, so my working assumption is that they are flat, and perhaps outstrip expectations that may have been set awhile ago (during expansive COVID period when they were madly hiring people). Apple barely promotes Books at all. Apple Books app is virtually the only reading app that has full Accessibility support. Kindle does pretty well, but fails to highlight text as it is read out (yes they updated to add 'assistive reading' that does this, AKA TTS, but it does not work smoothly - Speak Screen still works better last time I checked). Even apart from that, where it shines, I do not agree that it is 'terrible'. I don't read many books with it but have no need to do so (given I don't purchase from Apple). It is nothing special but I prefer it to (say) Kobo, Nook, Play Books. It's very easy to import 3rd party content that syncs across Apple devices. But I guess we will never see Books on the web. Last edited by tomsem; Today at 03:56 PM. |
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I'd be very happy to see Books go. I'd also be very happy for apple to drop eBooks.
It's Apple's fault that eBooks are more expensive then they used to be. |
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[QUOTE=tomsem;4449481]Oh come on. The price-fixing thing is very old news, it should not be cited as a reason for cutbacks now./QUOTE]
The case in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...v._Apple_(2012) |
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Nobody is forced to pay $20 (or more) for a new release. I certainly don't. My average purchase is about $3.50. That's a lot less than I was paying for print books, even used ones. |
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