News: February 17

How to succeed at marketing the iPad
"This is one of these products that bumps up against the most important issue in new technology: compatibility," according to Rashi Glazer, tech marketing expert at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. "Is it compatible with what people currently do...will people be willing to change their behavior?"
Source: Cnet.com


Norway halts Apple iPad pre-orders
Even though Apple US is not taking orders (and only has a "Notify" button in their shop) it seems resellers overseas are taking pre-orders.
"It's been a crazy interest and demand for Apple's latest creation, iPad," reads the website of Eplehuset (Apple House), a "premium reseller" with stores in Norway and Denmark. "Price and delivery for Europe will be ready in a short time, but in the meantime, we have chosen not to receive more pre-orders for now."
Source: Brainstorm Tech


iPad, EPUB, Apps and Comics, oh My!
How do you get a comic into EPUB format? It's so easy you're going to freak out. Ready? Here goes:
First, get your pages together and in order. Compress them into a .zip file. Change the .zip to .cbz. Get Calibre. Use Calibre to convert the .cbz to EPUB. Done. The conversion literally took me about 2 minutes to run - it even has a setting for converting comic books (not kidding!). No app. No special processing. No nothing. DONE! Calibre even has specific output settings for different devices (Nook, Sony, Kindle, etc, etc). It's a great program and exceptionally easy to use.
Source: comicsbulletin.com


Decrypting Adobe Digital Editions 1.7.2 eBooks on Windows
Adobe Digital Editions 1.7.2 tosses a monkey wrench into the procedure for decrypting Adobe eBooks that I described in iPhone: Reading Adobe/EPUB eBooks. Using that procedure as originally described can produce
Error: problem decrypting session key
instead of decrypting an eBook.
First I'll give the remedy, then I'll explain...
Source: Viva eBooks!