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A social networking giant Facebook has purchase a digital book publisher Push Pop for an undisclosed amount of money.

The ebook publisher was co-founded by an ex-Apple employee Mike Matas, who designed UIs and artwork for the company's Mac OS X, iPhone and iPad products.

"Now we're taking our publishing technology and everything we've learned and are setting off to help design the world's largest book, Facebook," said the company in a statement on its website.

Fresh stats from ABI Research revealed that in the third quarter of 2010 4.5 million tablets were shipped. The research agency’s Netbooks, MIDs, Media Tablets, and Mobile CE Market Data report shows that 93% of these tablets were Apple iPads.

Senior ABI Research practice director Jeff Orr notes that "Over time, Apple's first-to-market iPad advantage will inevitably erode to some extent."

Meantime the first half of 2010 was slow for netbooks, as relatively few new products were introduced.

According to the study by Dr. Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group - a product development consultancy that is not associated with Nielsen, the metrics company – it takes longer to read a book on an iPad or Kindle than on the printed page. Nielsen compared the reading times of 24 users on the Kindle 2, an iPad using the iBooks application, a PC monitor and good old fashioned paper.

Vietnamese seller Thuat Nguyen has used compromised accounts at Apple App Store to boost rankings and increase sales. According to unconfirmed reports hacked accounts were used to buy multiple copies of previously obscure Vietnamese-language eBooks, in an apparent bid to game the iTunes ranking system.

Mac Rumours says that the dubious eBooks have been pulled from Apple's store and the account of seller Thuat Nguyen of mycompany has been suspended. During the apparent attack 42 of the top 50 books listed in iTunes came from Nguyen, Endgadget reports.

ComScore released the results of the survey that polled Internet users on how they would like to use Apple’s iPad. The research found that mostly people want to use it for browsing the Web and checking e-mail. Meantime, people cited downloading apps from the App Store and playing intense video games such as first-person shooters were among the least popular potential uses.

It should be noted that the survey polled 2,176 participants defined as Internet users which surely does not imply most of them were those who want and who will order the iPad for themselves.

On Wednesday Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs presented the long waited tablet called iPad which will be sold at a surprisingly low price to bridge the gap between smartphones and laptops.

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