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E-Reader? There's An iPhone For That

  • GigaOm, Monday, November 2, 2009 1:47 PM
New research finds that book-related apps saw quite an upsurge in launches back in September. Indeed, book-related applications actually overtook games in the App Store as a percentage of all released apps, according to a survey conducted by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile application analytics company. And the trend isn't an aberration, insists GigaOm.

In October, one out of every five new applications launching on the iPhone was a book, Flurry said. The iPhone is already acknowledged as a handheld gaming platform thanks to more apps being released in the "games" category than any other from August 2008 to the same month in 2009. Now, it looks like a similar burst in book-related apps could secure the iPhone's e-reader status.

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  1. Mark Sigal from The Middleband Group, November 2, 2009 at 4:02 p.m.

    I am well into my second book using the Kindle reader for iPhone (on my iPod Touch). It’s a great utility for when you have those 20 minute slogs of time on a bus, waiting to meet someone at the coffee shop or kicking back in the living room.

    Now imagine a Tablet device with that same value proposition but a larger form factor, ideal for reading magazines, graphic novels, classroom-in-a-book apps (Physics anyone?) and/or reference guides

    Overlay on top of that Apple coming out with tools that enable anyone from solo publishers to big publishing houses to create books that are rich, graphical, that leverage touch/tilt/sound/video and are interactive, and you have a formula for Book Industry 2.0, something that I blogged about in:

    Rebooting the Book (One Apple iPad Tablet at a Time)
    http://bit.ly/zOoEu

    Check it out if interested.

    Mark

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