Author: Nancy Raskauskas, Senior Editor

The Apple iPad hits the stores this weekend amidst a lot of hype and anticipation for the apps that will be available. Here is some of the latest information we have that may answer some of your questions. Will other vendors be able to sell the iPad? Apple confirmed  that most Best Buy stores will also have iPads on Saturday. 3G versions of the iPad will be out late April while the Wi-Fi versions will sell for $499-$699, depending on how much storage it carries. One caveat on this, nitial pre-orders are sold out. Unless you get one at a store, the earliest you might see an online order placed today is around April 12. What about the lack of Flash on the iPad? There have been many announcements of apps being released by several developers for the iPad. They seem to be working around the Flash issue. Mainly this is being done by the converting of Flash to HTML5. What ebooks and newspapers will be available at launch.? About 30,000 free e-books will  available at launch. The publishers are actually still looking to the iPad as a lifesaver  reeling them in many new subscribers. The Wall Street Journal hopes to glean $17.99 a month per reader. Any new and different types of content for the iPad? Well for one, MTV Networks, for example, is developing a “co-browsing app...