Is iBooks An Afterthought?

Maybe by now you’ve watched yesterday’s full Apple event, which Apple posted on its site, as it always does. Maybe you’re cooler than this blogger, and you didn’t. But you’ve probably been following the coverage, the analysis, the live blogs. Publishing has been hoping and praying for iBooks–though nobody knew it was called that–for months or years now. But it got a comparatively small mention in yesterday’s event. A couple of minutes of demonstration, relative to the 10-15 minutes devoted to, say, iWork, the productivity suite.