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Apple should add books to the iTunes Store
The Apple Core —
December 9th, 2008 Apple should add books to the iTunes Store Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 8:39 am Categories: Apple , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Tags: Publisher , Apple Inc. , Apple iTunes , Penguin Group USA , Digital Music , Digital Media , Personal Technology , Consumer Electronics , Jason D. O'Grady Apple should add books to the iTunes Store With Tribune Company’s announcement yesterday that it is seeking bankruptcy protection it’s hard to find much good news in the world of print publishing these days. One glimmer of hope is the migration of ...
Lexcycle and Random House team up for free iPhone e-books
Infinite Loop —
Random House titles available from Stanza's Online Catalog. The most popular e-book app for the iPhone, Stanza , now has an extra bonus: nine free novels from publisher Random House. Stanza developer Lexcycle, along with Random House, announced the promotion this week. Stanza, though not as visually stunning as Classics , offers one of the widest selections of e-books for the iPhone. The app recently gained the ability to use e-books in the popular eReader format, and allows for the purchasing and downloading of books from Fictionwise directly to the iPhone. This new promotion with Random House adds nine titles to the online catalog from ...
Our Favorite iPhone Apps: Your turn
Macworld —
by Macworld staff , Macworld.com We had our say last week, rattling off our favorite iPhone and iPod touch apps. We listed 38 apps in all that had caught our eye in the six months since the App Store opened its doors. Of course, that’s just a drop in the bucket when it comes to the more than 10,000 apps currently available at the App Store. Surely, some great iPhone and iPod touch programs fell through the cracks. Well, not to worry—because iPhone Central readers stepped up to fill in some of the gaps by listing their own favorite App Store selections. We’re reprinting just a smattering below to give you a more complete picture of all the choices ...
Kindle + iPhone = Opportunities?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone
Buried in the announcement of the Kindle 2, Amazon also released a small nugget of information that had been flying around the Web for the past few days - that Kindle content will eventually come to cell phones. So, how would that work? According to the announcement, the ...
PC World: Five reasons the iPhone trumps the Kindle
Macworld —
by Rick Broida , PC World The following article is reprinted from the Hassle-Free PC blog at PCWorld.com . I’m an e-book fan from way back. Ever since my trusty Pilot 5000 rescued me from terminal boredom on a seemingly endless train ride, I’ve made sure to keep my current pocket companion (be it PDA or smartphone) stocked with a good book or two. And I’ve never had a better e-book experience than with the iPhone. Sure, my editor Robert Strohmeyer is all pumped up over the new Amazon Kindle , but if he thinks it can beat the iPhone in a head-to-head match, he’s delusional. Much as I’m glad to see Kindle selling like ...
Weekly App Store Picks: March 7, 2009
TheAppleBlog —
It’s the first Saturday of March, which means one thing: grab your iPhone, prime your mind, and focus your eyeballs because I’ve got another selection of fresh App Store picks for you.
Before we get to this week’s apps, there’s a stack of Apple happenings to run through. In App Store-related news, game development outfit ...
E-book Readers for iPhone
Apple iPhone Blog —
iPhone is a pretty good device for reading e-books. As an e-book reading device, iPhone has become even more interesting after Amazon released the Kindle application for iPhone. But is Kindle for iPhone the best e-book reading software? ...
Amazon scoops up developer of leading eBook iPhone app
AppleInsider —
... the acquisition on its website this week, saying its "excited" about the transition and that it "could not think of a better company to join during this exciting time." A free application downloaded more than 1 million times by App Store shoppers, Stanza ( App Store ) offers users 24-hour access to a catalog of over 100,000 eBooks in the open ePub format, an eBook container not supported on Amazon's popular Kindle digital reader device. Outside of broadening its reach to alternative eBook technologies, the retailer's strategic motives behind the move are unclear. However, ...
iPhone Apps A Hot Acquisition Market
Silicon Alley Insider —
The iPhone app store is a huge success for Apple (AAPL), with more than 1 billion apps downloaded in nine months. But it's also turning into a hot acquisition market.
The latest deal: IAC (IACI) has purchased Urbanspoon, a restaurant-finding app that Apple lists as the no. 11 most popular free app of all time. (Helped, no doubt, by an Apple television commercial.) The team will stick together in Seattle, now working for IAC -- after an "offer [they] couldn't refuse."
Earlier this week, Amazon (AMZN) purchased Lexcycle, which makes Stanza, a free e-book reader app. Presumably, the Stanza team will now build ...
iPhone Apps A Hot Acquisition Market
MacBytes.com —
... , which makes Stanza , a free e-book reader app. Presumably, the Stanza team will now build the next generation of Amazon Kindle mobile apps. (In the meantime, it promises no changes to Stanza.) And we've seen a few other deals over the past few months. For example, Amazon rival Barnes & Noble (BKS) ...
Amazon has acquired Stanza
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Software, iPhone, iPod touchLast month Amazon released the free Kindle application for the iPhone in the US [App Store link], shortly after the Kindle 2 hit the market. If you haven't used it yet, it works quite well. Users can buy books (but not subscriptions) from the Kindle Store via Mobile Safari for reading on their iPhones, although the purchasing process is easier from a desktop browser. Unlike the Kindle, the iPhone app is able to display color images, but it lacks text-to-speech as well as a direct connection to the Kindle Store. Whispersync, which synchronizes ebooks between the iPhone app and Kindle, ...
Apple’s Choice - Best Free iPhone Apps?
iPhoneGizmo - iPhone Apps, Downloads, Hacks, Tips & Tricks —
The App store has turned one years old and to celebrate Apple has provided us with its list of the best 30 Apps - 15 Free Apps and 15 Apps with a range of price tags.
The 15 best free iPhone Apps are listed below.
Stanza With millions of downloads around the world, this electronic book reader App has been a very popular with over 40,000 people rating its various versions as three star and 64% of 9584 raters giving the current version the thumbs up (three stars or better).
Other information sourcing goodies included in this list of best free iphone Apps are Daily Finance, Dictionary.com , ...
BookReader for iPhone: You can't judge a book by its cover
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Software, iPhone, App ReviewWe did a fairly extensive rundown of eBooks for the iPhone/iPod touch in August; you can take a look back if you're new to the eBook universe for Apple's mobile devices.
BookReader [iTunes Link] , a US$4.99 app for devices running OS 2.21 or higher, has just joined the crowded eBook market -- but it brings little to the table to recommend itself. The app when first run looks beautiful. You are shown a wonderfully rendered bookshelf which looks very similar to the one found in Classics [iTunes Link], but ...
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