Think iBooks Looks Familiar? You’re Not The Only One.

When Apple was demoing its new iBooks application for the iPad today during their keynote address, I just kept thinking to myself: this simply must have been designed by Delicious Monster , the shop behind the brilliant Mac app Delicious Library. I'm not the only one who thought that either. Delicious Monster founder Wil Shipley thought the same thing. The only problem? His shop didn't make it. In fact, Shipley was quite vocal on Twitter during the keynote today about the situation. " No, Apple didn’t license iBooks from me. They just copied me. Ah well ," he wrote . Later, he added , "I guess it’s not enough Apple has hired every employee who worked on Delicious Library, they also had to copy my product’s look. Flattery? " While Shipley tries to play it off as not that big of a deal, clearly he's pretty upset about it. And he should be. I mean, the bookshelf view in iBooks is nearly identical to the main bookshelf view used in Delicious Library. Not only that, but it's not like this is a little-known app that Apple may have missed: it has won the Apple Design Award twice, and been a runner-up one other time. Apple gives out those awards.