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Apple's iBooks platform is seeing an average of a million new users per week after the company's decision to ship iOS 8 with the app pre-installed, according to Apple Director of iBooks Keith Moerer, who spoke today at the Digital Book World Conference. efore iOS 8, the iBooks app had to be searched for and downloaded from the App Store, putting it on par with several other App Store-based e-books apps like Amazon's Kindle app for iOS. Pre-installing iBooks made it "so easy" for new users to try iBooks for the first time, said Moerer. Family Sharing, also new in...

A New York publisher is suing Apple for trademark infringement over the use of the term "iBooks." Publisher John T. Colby filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Wednesday, Bloomberg reports. Colby is founder and publisher of Brick Tower Press and J. Boylston & Company, Publishers. Colby purchased assets related to the "ibooks" mark in 2006 and 2007 from New York publisher Byron Preiss, who had published over 1,000 physical books under the name. The "ibooks" imprint was named "America's fastest growing small publisher" by Publishers Weekly in 2004, according to the company's website. According to the...

"The cheaters won," a hot and bothered Linda Dunn of Henrico County said as she stalked away from yesterday's iBook melee at Richmond International Raceway. She and her son, Colt Reynolds, had been among the hopefuls who came before dawn, seeking a $50 ticket to the Information Age. But they and many others found themselves thrust back into the Stone Age by late-coming bullies who ran them over in a rush to lap up the laptops used and abused by Henrico County high schoolers since 2001. "The one thing it shows you is human nature," Colt said. "There are people...

RICHMOND, Va. - A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line. ¡°This is total, total chaos,¡± said Latoya Jones, 19, who lost one of her flip-flops in the ordeal and later limped around on the sizzling blacktop with one foot bare. An estimated 5,500 people turned out at the Richmond International Raceway in hopes of getting their hands on one of the 4-year-old...

There was pandemonium in Henrico County Tuesday morning at Richmond International Raceway as thousands crammed in trying to get an iBook. Henrico schools are selling them for $50 to Henrico residents only. But the sale quickly escalated when the gates opened at 7 a.m. and people raced in. Several people were reportedly injured and emergency crews had to be called to the scene. Although officials said camping was not allowed, some Henrico residents got to the gates just after midnight Monday. Officials estimated thousands of people were fighting the crowds at RIR, but Henrico plans to sell only one thousand...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line. "This is total, total chaos," said Latoya Jones, 19, who lost one of her flip-flops in the ordeal and later limped around on the sizzling blacktop with one foot bare. More than 1,000 people turned out at the Richmond International Raceway in hopes of getting their hands on one of the 4-year-old...

What started as a sale turned into a mob scene as thousands of people pushed their way through the Richmond International Raceway gates to buy a $50 iBook laptop computer from Henrico County Schools this morning. The school district had only 1,000 of these surplus computers to sell, and Henrico County residents got first dibs. Starletta Wilson came to the sale but when the gates opened at 7 a.m., chaos broke out. “Yeah, they pushed me, look at my child's stroller... they actually pushed me and stampeded over me. Those people who are down there now were behind us," Wilson...

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/16/computer.frenzy.ap/index.html

Henrico County Public Schools have announced that its used Apple iBooks it has been using in a four-year laptop program will be sold off in a one-day sale, Tuesday, August 9. Mychael Dickerson, director of media relations and safety for Henrico County Public Schools, said 1,000 iBooks will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis for US$50 each at the school warehouse in Richmond, Virginia from 9 am to 3pm ET. The warehouse is located at 361 Dabbs House Road beside the Eastern Government Center. Only cash or checks will be accepted. The 12-inch iBooks were part of a contract...