44-517: 51°30′45.2″N 0°5′18.3″W / 51.512556°N 0.088417°W / 51.512556; -0.088417 Z/Yen is a commercial think-tank , consultancy and venture firm headquartered in the City of London . It works in the financial services, technology and voluntary sectors on research, performance review and strategic management. Founded in 1994, Z/Yen has developed the London Accord ,
88-510: A Cover tag to user-editable metadata tags for books, while removing other editable tags for Year, Category, Comments, and Description. This coincided with the Mac version of the app being ported from the iOS/iPadOS version using Catalyst . The Apple Books Store (formerly iBook Store) is an ePub content sales and delivery system that delivers eBooks to any iOS device such as the iPad , iPhone , and iPod Touch . It does not currently support either
132-470: A July 19 update from Apple offered several improvements. On September 27, 2011, Apple expanded the premium store to the Republic of Ireland. On January 19, 2012, Apple announced the release of iBooks 2, which supported interactive textbooks on the iPad; the release of iBooks 2 was accompanied by a new Mac app, iBooks Author. On October 23, 2012, Apple announced iBooks 3. On November 13, 2012, Apple
176-478: A forum dedicated to technology and disruption. In 2017, Z/Yen published Financial Centre Futures - The Global Financial Centres Index 21 and The Global Financial Centres Index 22, which rank the competitiveness of financial centres globally based on multiple factors including business environment, infrastructure, human capital, and reputation. The reports also include special reports on topics such as fintech, green finance, and Islamic finance. In 2018, Z/Yen launched
220-401: A new Textbooks section of the iBookstore. iBooks Author introduced two proprietary file formats: TechRadar 's Steve Paris called iBooks Author "incredibly simple to use", but noted a few bugs in the first public release, and criticized the fact that it only supported H.264 video files, despite iPads being compatible with more formats. Macworld called it an "impressive" tool, but said it
264-544: A new application, iBooks Author, was announced for the Mac App Store , allowing anyone to create interactive textbooks for reading in iBooks; and the iBooks Store was expanded with a textbook category. The iBooks Author Conference, an annual gathering of digital content creators around Apple's iBooks Author, has convened between 2015 and 2017. Apple discontinued iBooks Author in 2020, its functionality having been integrated into Pages . In September 2018, iBooks
308-536: A part of a Marine Stewardship Council event in 2001. In January 2003, Z/Yen launched PropheZy, a predictive Dynamic, Anomaly & Pattern Response (DAPR) system, which received a £45,000 Smart Award from the Department of Trade and Industry . A year later, VizZy, a complementary visualization system for PropheZy, was launched. In 2005, Z/Yen was appointed by the Institute of Fundraising , with partner Business in
352-715: A proprietary iBook format (IBA), generated with the iBooks Author tool. This format is based upon the EPUB format but depends on a custom widget code in the Apple Books app to function. As of version 3, iBooks started to render text written in 18 different languages. Users of the application are able to change the font and text size displayed. Available English fonts are Baskerville , Cochin , Georgia , Palatino , Times New Roman , Verdana , Athelas , Charter , Iowan Old Style and Seravek . Version 5 removed Cochin and Baskerville. Users can adjust screen brightness from within
396-549: A result, iBooks was not supported on first-generation iPhones and iPod Touches. On June 8, 2010 at the WWDC Keynote it was announced that iBooks would be updated that month to read PDF files as well as have the ability to annotate both PDFs and eBooks . As of July 1, 2010, Apple expanded iBooks availability to Canada . Upon its release for older devices running iOS 4, such as the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch , iBooks received criticism for its slow performance. However,
440-880: A technical framework for a cryptocurrency simulator. In addition, Z/Yen published Financial Centre Futures - The Global Financial Centres Index 23 and The Global Financial Centres Index 24 in March and September 2019, respectively, and the China Financial Centres Index 10. Think-tank Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 543646031 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:43:18 GMT Apple Books Apple Books (known as iBooks prior to iOS 12)
484-420: A user can select the appealing e-book snippet that will bring up a contextual menu containing an option to gift the media to another party. On November 15, 2013, Apple pushed version 3.2 of iBooks for iOS with a redesigned interface to match the "flat" style of iOS 7 , which dropped support for iOS 6 and earlier versions. On the annual WWDC in 2014, Apple unveiled that iBooks will be a pre-installed app in
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#1732772598216528-425: A £750,000 DTI Foresight Challenge award later that year. In the late 1990s, Z/Yen expanded its services to include not-for-profit sector work. The company worked with organizations such as Cancer Research Campaign, BEN, and The Children's Society. It also undertook a major pan-European study into the market for OTC derivatives outsourcing. A version of the company's bourse game was played at St James' Palace as
572-421: Is an e-book reading and store application by Apple Inc. for its iOS , iPadOS and macOS operating systems and devices . It was announced, under the name iBooks, in conjunction with the iPad on January 27, 2010, and was released for the iPhone and iPod Touch in mid-2010, as part of the iOS 4 update. Initially, iBooks was not pre-loaded onto iOS devices, but users could install it free of charge from
616-811: The Global Financial Centres Index , the Global Intellectual Property Index for Taylor Wessing and Taskforce 2000 (the UK industry response to the Millennium Bug ). Z/Yen conducts market research and intelligence. It publishes most of its research freely on its own website. Z/Yen is split into 2 parts; Long Finance for Pro bono work and The Financial Services Club (FSC) which provides networking dinners and events for city professionals. During its early years, Z/Yen worked with companies such as British Gas,
660-711: The Kindle Store 's website instead of using the Kindle app; users can still get free e-books or samples while using the app. Steve Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that: The process by which states certify textbooks is corrupt. But if we can make the textbooks free, and they come with the iPad, then they don't have to be certified. The crappy economy at the state level will last for a decade, and we can give them an opportunity to circumvent that whole process and save money. After Jobs's death, in 2012, Apple released iBooks 2, which added support for interactive textbooks on
704-599: The iTunes App Store . With the release of iOS 8 , it became an integrated app. On June 10, 2013, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference , Craig Federighi announced that iBooks would also be provided with OS X Mavericks in Fall 2013. It primarily receives EPUB content from the Apple Books store, but users can also add their own EPUB and Portable Document Format (PDF) files via data synchronization with iTunes . Additionally,
748-497: The Apple Books (under name iBooks) interface is a near-exact replica of Classics by Andrew Kaz and Phill Ryu, released over a year prior and even featured in Apple's own TV commercials. Apple has made no acknowledgment of this. In June 2011, Apple was sued by New York publisher John T. Colby over the use of the term "iBook". Colby claims to be the owner of a trademark on the term "ibooks" as applied to published books, after acquiring
792-665: The Community, to run the enquiry line and information center for the Payroll Giving Centre program funded by the Home Office . In 2007, Z/Yen created its Global Financial Centres Index for the City of London Corporation , sold its investment banking cost-per-trade benchmarking unit to Aon , and launched the London Accord , which provides an open-source research resource on finance and environmental, social and governance ( ESG ) issues. In 2008, Z/Yen launched
836-608: The Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) in Brussels, which ranks financial centres around the world based on the quality and depth of their green finance offerings. The GGFI is a collaborative effort with the think tank Finance Watch. More recently, Z/Yen has been involved in the development of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies through its Long Finance initiative. The Eternal Coin's "Economic Simulation And Control Of Cryptocurrencies" project aims to develop
880-558: The Global Intellectual Property Index for the legal firm Taylor Wessing. Z/Yen also founded the ExtZy game, which creates a stock market from the internet through the Long Finance initiative. Z/Yen's research has included carbon bonds, non-monetary trade, and Confidence Accounting . Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris, co-founders of Z/Yen, launched their third book, The Price of Fish , published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing . The book
924-676: The London Stock Exchange, Defense Evaluation and Research Agency ( DERA ), now DSTL and QinetiQ , and Bloomberg . Z/Yen was a key player in the founding of Taskforce 2000, a private sector initiative designed to alert people to the Millennium Bug. In 1996, Z/Yen launched the £1.9M Financial Laboratory in collaboration with BZW, Royal and Sun Alliance, The London Stock Exchange, DERA, City University , City University Business School , The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, and Silicon Graphics. The project won
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#1732772598216968-407: The application. Words can be selected and searched throughout the book. Definitions of words can also be found upon clicking on the word and selecting 'define' which will give the reader a brief description of what the word means and if there isn't a definition available, the reader can opt to either search on Misplaced Pages or the web for a definition, an option available even if there is a definition for
1012-448: The assets of deceased publisher Byron Preiss , who had published a series of sci-fi and fantasy books under the term. Apple had previously used the term " iBook " to refer to a line of laptops that it sold until 2006, but Colby claims exclusive right to the term as applied to published books, including e-books. Apple began using the term "iBooks" in 2010 to refer to e-books sold for the iPad. Byron Preiss published more than 1,000 books under
1056-541: The day of the product announcement, January 27, 2010. The Apple Books Store also provides access to the 30,000+ free books available from Project Gutenberg , and it provides content channeled through Draft2Digital or Smashwords , allowing independent authors and publishers to self-publish. The day before the iPad event, Terry McGraw , the CEO of McGraw-Hill , appeared to divulge information to Erin Burnett on CNBC about
1100-600: The downloading or reading of Apple Books directly on Windows or Linux distributions , but it does support the downloading and reading of Apple Books on OS X Mavericks and later. Prior to the unveiling of the iPad, publishers Penguin Books , HarperCollins , Simon & Schuster , Macmillan Publishers , and Hachette Book Group USA committed to producing content for the Apple Books Store (under name iBooks Store). Additional publishers were invited to participate on
1144-560: The files can be downloaded to Apple Books through Safari or Apple Mail. It is also capable of displaying e-books that incorporate multimedia. According to product information as of March 2010, iBooks will be able to "read the contents of any page [to the user]" using VoiceOver . On January 19, 2012, at an education-focused special event in New York City, Apple announced the free release of iBooks 2, which can operate in landscape mode and allows for interactive reading. In addition,
1188-475: The financial viability of competing bookstore apps run by other book retailers is uncertain, even though in many countries, the Apple Books Store still does not provide consumers access to any e-books except for free works, such as ones that are in the public domain . Apple's competitor Amazon.com updated its iOS Kindle app in July 2013 to bypass the 30% revenue share by requiring the user to purchase content using
1232-559: The iBooks Store was only downloaded 3,000 times in total, despite being free. In 2020, Apple abandoned iBooks Author, and recommended that authors use Apple's Pages word processor instead. In the intervening years, Apple had built most of iBook Author's functionality into Pages, and the latter can export these books in standard EPUB format rather than the proprietary iBooks Author format. However, as of 2020, Pages only supported image galleries, videos, and audio, and lacked iBooks Author's more advanced features. Some critics have stated that
1276-569: The iOS 11.3 beta. As well as in macOS 10.13.4 beta iBooks to Books on March 5, 2018. It was renamed back to iBooks in a next intermittent 10.13.4 macOS beta, showing some uncertainty about the marketing decision. In early 2019, Apple renamed the app Apple Books. On September 19, 2019, Apple included an Audiobooks app with watchOS 6 to play from the Apple Books Audiobook store. The supported e-book formats of Apple Books are EPUB and PDF . As of version 2.0, it also supports
1320-407: The iPad with the introduction of iTunes 9.1. This was supposedly to prevent too much traffic on Apple's servers, as they have been overloaded with previous releases of the iPhone. On the day of its launch, on March 31, 2010, the iBooks Store collection comprised some 60,000 titles. On April 8, 2010, Apple announced that iBooks would be updated to support the iPhone and iPod Touch with iOS 4. As
1364-708: The iPad. These textbooks can display interactive diagrams, audio, video, quizzes, HTML, and 3D content, and support highlights, notes, and annotations, which can be viewed in an " index card "-like interface. Apple argued that these iPad textbooks would be more engaging for students than paper textbooks. Apple simultaneously released a free Mac app, iBooks Author, which could be used to create these interactive textbooks in WYSIWYG fashion. Apple's launch partners included education publishers Pearson , McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , whose textbooks were available in
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1408-402: The introduction of iOS 8 in 2014, an additional "Auto-Night Theme" was introduced, which dynamically changes the theme from 'Normal' or 'Sepia' to 'Night' and vice versa based on the ambient light conditions. With the introduction of iOS 9 in 2015, a fourth background theme was added: Gray : light grey text on a dark gray background. Apple Books also stacks books that belong to a series when
1452-591: The next version of the operating system, iOS 8 , along with the Podcasts app. On September 17, 2014, Apple bundled version 4.0 of iBooks for iOS with iOS 8.0. This includes slight changes with the bookstore button (into a persistent navigation bar at the bottom), grouping of books by series in the bookshelf, Auto-night mode theme, as well as small changes to the underlying rendering engine. On October 20, 2014, Apple bundled version 4.1 of iBooks for iOS with iOS 8.1. On January 24, 2018, Apple renamed iBooks to Books in
1496-410: The page, animated to imitate the appearance of a paper book. In Scroll, there is no page turning, and the book appears as continuous text, read vertically like a web browser. Until May 2011 the Apple Books app (under name iBooks) included a free copy of Winnie-the-Pooh , the 1926 book by A. A. Milne , in order to get the user's library started. In macOS Monterey, released in late 2021, Apple added
1540-422: The third showing the page almost entirely turned over. The patent refers to O'Reilly Media and FlippingBook companies that use page-turning animation in eBooks. On June 10, 2013, Apple announced iBooks for OS X Mavericks . On October 24, 2013, Apple applied for a patent (since granted) for "Personalizing digital gifts", which describes a novel method for gifting e-books to friends. The patent describes how
1584-411: The upcoming iPad release. This was quickly picked up and disseminated by rumor sites and eventually mainstream media outlets as revelation of features of the iPad. McGraw Hill was not included in the iPad presentation at the Apple media event and there was speculation that the exclusion was in response to this release of information. However, McGraw-Hill has stated that the information disclosed by McGraw
1628-553: The user is on the "All Books" screen. When selected, the books included in the series are shown in the order in which they were released, including books in the series that the user has not purchased. The prices of the unpurchased books are displayed on the upper right corner of the book "ear-marked" in green. Tapping the unpurchased book takes the user directly to the Apple Books store allowing for quick purchase. There are three page layouts: Book, Full Screen, and Scroll. In Book or Full Screen layout, pages are turned by tapping or dragging
1672-478: The word. Readers can also highlight passages and when this is done, the part of the Ebook which deals with the chapters and notes will automatically save the words or sentences which were highlighted, as well as revealing any notes made after highlighting a certain passage, another feature. Originally, there were three viewing background themes to choose from, except when reading PDF documents. The themes were: With
1716-964: Was "constrained" by its exclusive compatibility with iPads. iBooks Author's license agreement was controversial upon release, for stating that documents created with the tool could only be sold for a fee if they were accepted and exclusively distributed by Apple. Apple backtracked a few weeks later, in an updated license agreement. Its proprietary file format was also criticized by Ed Bott of ZDNet , who compared it to Microsoft's " embrace, extend, extinguish " strategy. In contrast, Serenity Caldwell of Macworld lauded iBooks Author's additional features over EPUB authoring software. Apple added support for EPUB export to iBooks Author in 2015, although textbooks exported in EPUB supported fewer features than iBooks textbooks. Notable books created using iBooks Author include How to Say Cheese , Physics in Motion , NASA's Destination: Jupiter. E.O. Wilson's Life On Earth
1760-517: Was also released for free as an interactive textbook. Between 2015 and 2017, an annual iBooks Author Conference was held; Tidbits reports that some authors called the tool "best in class", with no equivalent on any other platform, but that Apple had "let the entire iBooks Author ecosystem stagnate". Author Denise Clifton reported that despite the iBooks Author version of her book being the "best and most advanced", it "sold fewer copies than any other" edition. The most downloaded interactive textbook on
1804-723: Was awarded the Gold Medal in the Finance, Investment, and Economics category of the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards . In 2018, Z/Yen was also awarded the Diamond Quality Mark in recognition of the staff's continued contribution to charity through payroll giving. In 2014, Z/Yen published "City Walks: Finance At Your Feet" on iBooks . In 2015, the InterChainZ project developed several implementations of mutual distributed ledgers and launched Distributed Futures,
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1848-476: Was granted the patent "Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface" for page-turning animation. The page-turning animation was first filed for in December 2011 as ornamental design for a display screen. The patent's illustration shows three different images of a virtual page being turned. One with a corner of a page being turned slightly, the next image with the page halfway turned, and
1892-420: Was not privileged, and that the company had not intended to participate in the event. In 2011, an Apple spokesperson announced that "We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase." Due to the 30% revenue share that Apple receives from the in-app purchase mechanism,
1936-574: Was renamed "Apple Books" upon the release of iOS 12 and macOS Mojave . It features a new variation of the San Francisco typeface known as "SF Serif", which was later revealed to be released in six optical weights under the " New York " name. iBooks was announced alongside the iPad at a press conference in January 2010. The store itself, however, was released in America three days before
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