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Apple News (iPad Mini Sales; Sony’s App; Smashword’s Sales) and ABA Advice to Kobo Sellers

November 5, 2012
By Michael Cader

Trying to counter reports the iPad mini has not caught fire immediately among the faithful, Apple announced somewhat ambiguously that “it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad–ouble the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third generation iPad in March.” CEO Tim Cook adds that they “practically sold out of iPad minis. We’re working hard to build more quickly to meet the incredible demand.” Almost two years after Apple first rejected Sony’s ereading app over violations of the iTunes […]

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