Rumor Has It! Apple's October 23rd Event...

Apple is launching another event this 23rd of October. Rumors has been swarming that the new iPad Mini will be presented along with some new Macs. There has been other rumors talking precisely of other interesting things that iTunes has in store for us.

With the new iPad Mini Apple is going into direct competition with Amazon's Kindles. Apple is going to try to reinforce it sales of books in its stores by expanding books for purchase in other countries not yet available. Coming along with the iPad mini there is talk of a possible launch of sales of books in Latin America.

Other important rumors revolving iTunes is possible music store launches in Turkey, Russia, South Africa and other countries. In South Africa's case a statement was made by Yoel Kenan, CEO of  Africori (an African music distributor) that iTunes Music Store will be available soon in South Africa. There has been news flying around that Turkey will possibly have its own music store also. What has been more prevalent are rumors that Russia will have an iTunes Music Store coming this quarter. Now, it's my opinion that along with the iPad Mini launch on October 23rd these and other countries will have it's own iTunes store in which music is available for purchase.

Another rumor involving iTunes, to be more precise, iTunes Japan is the possible availability of Sony's Japanese Music Catalog in the Japanese iTunes Music Store. Sony has never made available its Japanese music on iTunes due to the fact that Sony saw (sees?) Apple as a rival to its business. These rumors revolve around Tetsuya Komuro's comments on twitter, who is a musician who worked under Sony's label in Japan.

The only way to know if these rumors are really true is to wait for the 23rd of October Apple event! One thing is for certain is iTunes 11's launch.