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Wow, this is a really slick move. Who else is competing with Amazon in ebooks and paid online content delivery to mobile devices?
by bcx 18y ago
Wow, this is a really slick move. Who else is competing with Amazon in ebooks and paid online content delivery to mobile devices?
- ivey 18y agoStanza and eReader apps (iPhone) can do over the air purchases from http://www.ereader.com/ http://www.ereader.com/ and http://www.fictionwise.com http://www.fictionwise.com (they're basically the same site now)
- jupiter 18y agoI guess it's not so much about competing with other ebook readers but to attract iPhone users to buy a Kindle.
- rdrimmie 18y agoIt definitely won't hurt to encourage people to buy more hardware, but the hardware doesn't matter nearly as much as the content. Kindle being a universal eBook manager type software brand is far more valuable to Amazon than keeping the books exclusive to the hardware.
- allertonm 18y agoShortcovers (http://www.shortcovers.com/ http://www.shortcovers.com/) is an interesting new entry in this space from huge Canadian bookseller Indigo - they released a week ago. Their software has its failings as an e-Reader but they have a lot of free content and the structure of the service nicely matches the kind of usage that seems likely on a device like the iPhone.