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Apple is looking at ways tv, magazine and newspaper content can be presented. The tablet is expected to make it debut at the event Apple has Planned on January 27^th. Apple is also looking at ways to incorporate gaming into the functions of the tablet. Apple is reported to be working with video game publishers.

Apple reportedly is talking to many service providers to deliver content to the device. For magazine content, Apple is talking with companies including The New York Times, Conde Nast Publications and News Corp., the report said. Apple is also negotiating with CBS and Walt Disney to deliver monthly TV subscription services.

Apple is reportedly also talking to HarperCollins Publishers to sell electronic books for the tablet. As part of the deal, HarperCollins will set its own price for the e-books, from which Apple will get a cut. Apple’s purchase of streaming music provider Lala.com in December has also been linked to the tablet. (pcworld)

Apple hasn’t said they are going to announce the tablet, however they have sent out invitations for the 27^th event where the tablet is expected to be launched. The device has been rumored to be a larger version of the iPhone, with a 10 inch touch screen and a virtual keyboard.

Kai-Fu Lee, a former Apple employee and previously the head of Google in China, recently blogged that the tablet would come with 3D graphics and a price tag below US$1,000.

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The internet has changed the way publishers do business. Many media companies are publishing on-line magazines to stay competitive. Publishers are hoping the Apples iSlate / Tablet will lead to a recovery for the publishers. On January 27, Apple will be announcing there latest creation. Speculations are geared towards a tablet that has a 10 inch touch screen. Just as the iPhone and the iTunes App Store created new business opportunities for game and mobile application developers, newspaper and magazine publishers are hoping that the iSlate will similarly transform their beleaguered industry.

The iPhone and the kindle have proven people are willing to read on these devices and also pay for content. Amazon has reported the kindle being the best seller on there site. These devices have proven they can make it on the market; all we need from apple is the device.

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Since the internet was available to the common household magazines and newspapers have been publishing there content on the web. Publishers have been loosing revenue from lack of content in circulation. An optimistic prospect is that the iSlate and other tablet computers introduced by Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo will create new media experiences consumers are willing to pay for.

“There is a lot of hope that we will be able to import the subscription model to the tablet device,” said Philippe Guelton, COO of Hachette Filipacchi Media, publisher of several titles including Elle and CAR and DRIVER. “We have a huge opportunity to offer premium content and go much deeper that we could on the web.”

The overwhelming success of the App Store proves people are whiling to pay for digital content. The App Store has hit the 3 billion download mark, and in the recent weeks many publishers have jumped on board like GQ, Esquire and even Playboy Magazine. Zinio, a digital publishing technology company, earlier this year released an iPhone app that carries electronic versions of 14 (and counting) publications on that device. The free eReader application makes it possible to consume the same magazine on multiple devices while only paying for one download. Of course, it isn’t just fate that the Zinio iPhone app was released a few weeks before Apple’s big announcement.

“Publishers are going to want to design for different screen experiences,” said Zinio Chief Marketing Officer Jeanniey Mullen. “With small screens, you are not going to read cover-to-cover. With mid-sized screens, you will be looking to sit down wherever you are a page through the device.”

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Apple officially sent out invitations Monday for its expected Jan. 27 event in San Francisco, where it is anticipated the company will introduce its new touchscreen tablet device.
According to Engadget the invitation was sent out Monday with the tagline: “Come see our latest creation.” The included graphic has the Apple logo surrounded by colorful paint splatters. The event is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Pacific time.

Earlier this month, Digital Daily first reported the final Wednesday, Jan. 27 date. The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. That followed an earlier report that Apple had booked the stage at the center for multiple days that week.

Apple is expected to make a major product announcement at the event, which most believe will be its long-rumored tablet device. Last July, AppleInsider first reported that the multi-touch, 10-inch successor to the Newton would arrive in early 2010.

In December, select iPhone developers were allegedly asked to prepare full-screen demos of their software for a product unveiling. It has been suggested that developers are working with a new version of the iPhone OS that allows software to be scaled to multiple screen sizes.

Various reports, including one from The Wall Street Journal, have said that though next week’s event will serve as an official unveiling of the tablet, it will not be made available for sale until later this year. Sources have said that date would likely be around March. (apple insider)
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Want to know when Apple’s tablet will ship? It will ship when Steve Jobs decides it is ready to ship and not a moment before. Apple plans to announce a tablet by Jan. 19, 2010. As a chronic Applewatcher, my guess is that Apple engineers keep coming up with prototypes that Steve doesn’t like, probably based on component choices and necessary price points. Yes, even Apple knows that a product can simply do too little and cost too much.

The necessary components keep improving–the latest delay is supposedly for a new screen. (Ship date, was supposedly next March, is now supposedly second half of next year, but who’s counting the days anymore?)According to sources, Apple appears to be preparing to build as many as 1 million apple tablet computers per month. Assuming the company would need 5 or 6 weeks of inventory before going live, that suggests — barring production hiccups — a March or April 2010 launch. Rumor has it 1M-1.5M apple tablets will be sold, per quarter at an ASP of $1,000 and a corporate average net income margin of 22%, the tablet could contribute $0.25-$0.38 of incremental EPS per quarter.

The apple tablet will come in two editions, one with a webcam and one for educational use. Also, there will be one version equipped with 3G networking and one without. This would make the 3G model a bigger version of the iPhone, and the non-3G tablet a larger iPod Touch. The tablet will sport a higher resolution than the iPhone or iPod Touch screen: “Expect something like 5-6 times the resolution of an iPod Touch or iPhone screen (720p or thereabouts) and 7 times the touchable surface area,” writes iLounge. We can only speculate that Apple could integrate an e-book section into the iTunes Store into the apple tablet, giving it the potential to shake up the publishing industry.