UK iBookstore shelves filled for iPad readers

Having made its international debut earlier this week, only with nothing but out-of-copyright titles to choose from, Apple’s iBookstore has now started to fill up with more modern fare. Coinciding, unsurprisingly, with the international launch of the iPad, the UK iBookstore now has titles from Bernard Cornwell, Tony Parsons and Malcolm Gladwell, among many others.

As with the App Store and iTunes, ebook purchases are a two-tap affair using the iTunes account registered to your iPad. What may swing things for some readers is the fact that pricing is in local currency – i.e. Sterling in the UK iBookstore – rather than Amazon’s dollar-only pricing no matter which country you access Kindle from.

Earlier this week Barnes & Noble launched their own BN eReader app for the iPad, though currently their estore is only available in the US. Meanwhile Amazon’s Kindle app has been available for the Apple tablet for some time now, and allows users who have already bought into the Kindle ebooks ecosystem to wirelessly transfer their titles over to their new iPad.

Nokia N8 UK release date confirmed

A member of staff at a Nokia mobile phone store has just confirmed to Pocket-lint the release date of its latest super phone, the N8।



We previously reported that the phone would be launched in Germany on the 24 August and hoped that the Vodafone registration page, which is currently up on the website, would mean that us Brits might get the handset even sooner.

However, it seems as though we're going to have to be patient, as the UK release date has been confirmed as 25 August 2010.

Nokia's latest handset will feature 720p video, a 12-megapixel camera as well as all the bells and whistles you could possibly want out of a modern smartphone. The success of the handset, however, really depends on how well the Symbian^3 OS runs, as in our previous hands-on with the device Nokia wouldn't let us turn it on.

Let us know in the comments if you've signed up to be notified for the pre-order, and whether, in fact, you think that the N8 will be able to compete against other high-end handsets.