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macdailynews.com - 10/2/2008

Apple iPhone becomes #1 digital book reader; outsells Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader

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Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 04:16 PM EDT "It's official: The iPhone is more popular than Amazon.com's Kindle. And not just in the obvious categories like listening to music, browsing the Web or the other applications where Kindle barely competes. Now, the iPhone is also muscling into Amazon's ...

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Apple iPhone becomes #1 digital book reader; outsells Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader
MacDailyNews — ... for the heads up.] MacDailyNews Take: Plus, as an added bonus, iPhone doesn't look like something John Dykstra superglued together back in 1975. It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore. - Apple CEO Steve Jobs remarking on Amazon' Kindle, January 15, 2008 Related articles: Apple iPhone becomes #1 digital book reader; outsells Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader - October 02, ...

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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... screen is very tiny and I wouldn't want to read anything longer than an email message with it. However, many people will, some of whom do it just because they can. I can remember reading a Stephen King book on my old Palm ///e simply because I thought it was neat. Still, combine the 395,000 downloads of Stanza with nearly 380,000 Kindles sold (plus the Sony eBook reader figures), and it seems that many people enjoy reading very tiny type. [Via MacDailyNews]Read | Permalink | Email this ...

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MacDailyNews — ... . MacDailyNews Note: On October 02, 2008, Andy Greenberg and James Erik Abels reported for Forbes , "It's official: The iPhone is more popular than Amazon.com's Kindle. And not just in the obvious categories like listening to music, browsing the Web or the other applications where Kindle barely competes. Now, the iPhone is also muscling into Amazon's home turf: reading books... Stanza, a book reading application offered in Apple's iPhone App Store since July, has been downloaded more than 395,000 times and continues to be installed at an average rate of about 5,000 copies a ...

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MacDailyNews — ... . MacDailyNews Note: On October 02, 2008, Andy Greenberg and James Erik Abels reported for Forbes , "It's official: The iPhone is more popular than Amazon.com's Kindle. And not just in the obvious categories like listening to music, browsing the Web or the other applications where Kindle barely competes. Now, the iPhone is also muscling into Amazon's home turf: reading books... Stanza, a book reading application offered in Apple's iPhone App Store since July, has been downloaded more than 395,000 times and continues to be installed at an average rate of about 5,000 copies a ...

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MacDailyNews — ... app for iPhone and iPod touch (now with landscape mode) - May 20, 2009 •  Amazon launches optimized, integrated Kindle Store for ‘Kindle for iPhone’ app - May 11, 2009 •  Amazon unveils Kindle app for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch; displays books in color - March 04, 2009 •  Amazon Kindle outsold 2-1 by Microsoft’s Zune debacle - February 04, 2009 •  Kindle, Schmindle: Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch rule eBook market - December 30, 2008 • Apple iPhone becomes #1 digital book reader; outsells Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader - October 02, ...

First digital book for sale on iTunes 9; Apple’s ebook trojan horse?
MacDailyNews — ... app for iPhone and iPod touch (now with landscape mode) - May 20, 2009 •  Amazon launches optimized, integrated Kindle Store for ‘Kindle for iPhone’ app - May 11, 2009 •  Amazon unveils Kindle app for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch; displays books in color - March 04, 2009 •  Amazon Kindle outsold 2-1 by Microsoft’s Zune debacle - February 04, 2009 •  Kindle, Schmindle: Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch rule eBook market - December 30, 2008 • Apple iPhone becomes #1 digital book reader; outsells Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader - October 02, ...