Apple Has Sold Over 1 Million iPads

Apple put out an official release this morning announcing that it sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3.  In addition, Apple said that developers have created over 5,000 iPad apps, there have been over 12 million downloads of apps for iPads, and over 1.5 million downloads of ebooks from the iBookstore.

On a related note, according to Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster estimated that Apple sold 300,000 iPad 3Gs over the three-day launch weekend, including units pre-ordered online for Friday delivery. So, it appears that Apple has sold roughly 1.3 million total iPads (with and without 3G).

Battle of the iPad Book Apps: iBooks Versus Kindle

PCMag's Michael Miller offers up a detailed review of both the iBooks app and the Kindle app for the iPad.  The strength of the iBooks app, says Miller, is its search functionality and its support for the more open ePub format.  But, Miller points out that Amazon has a much better selection of books available, and that, together with the Kindle app's ability to sync with multiple devices, gives the Kindle app the edge over iBooks.

Read the full review here.

More iPad Magazine Ads

Both Entertainment Weekly and TIME are running ads for the iPad on the back cover of this week's issue.  The TIME ad, on the right above, shows the iBooks app and the EW ad shows the iPhoto software.

Yesterday we showed you the ad on the back of Sports Illustrated.