Amazon’s chief rival, Apple is also benefiting from the publishing revolution. The Apple ibookstore has over 200,000 books catalogued for consumers to choose from; and since it first launched in 2010, 139 million books have been downloaded from 2,500 publishers in 20 categories, including all six major publishers.
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December, 2013: Price of Murder (Bruce Alexander)
Amazon’s chief rival, Apple is also benefiting from the publishing revolution. The Apple ibookstore has over 200,000 books catalogued for consumers to choose from; and since it first launched in 2010, 139 million books have been downloaded from 2,500 publishers in 20 categories, including all six major publishers.
Another example of how erroneous this claim is can be found in the example of the grimoire Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin, which was translated and published by Mathers in the late 19th century. This book has been revered by occultists and practicing magicians. The book even has urban myths associated with it, that the magical squares contained in it are so potent, just having the book in one’s possessions can cause all sorts of phenomena to occur. However, recent scholarship has revealed that the original manuscript used by Mathers was incomplete and full of errors. A new version of this book, which was derived from an earlier and more complete German manuscript, shows, when compared to the older version, just how incomplete and flawed it was. There are more magick squares in the German version than the French version, all of the magick squares are complete (although some have errors) in the German version, and an entire chapter was omitted in the French version that is faithfully reproduced in the German. The ordeal in the German version is 18 months, while it is only 6 months in the French version - the list goes on and on.