Starting next week, Amazon will be selling its Kindle-library to users of Apple mobile devices... there will be a new free app called "Kindle" which, one hopes, will be far better than Stanza.
Exciting! It's all about good content at the right price. Read today's NYT article about it.
Just downloaded a sample - Disrupting Class : How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns - a book I want to read that is not on audible.
So what I want is for Amazon to give me one of these books each time I buy an Audible audio book. They own Audible.....so it should make sense.
That way buying audio books is more compelling - as I'm buying the book but can choose how I want to consume it (audio or text).
Amazon needs to do things like this to motivate a new generation of book readers.
Posted by: Joshua Kim | March 04, 2009 at 05:17 PM
Thanks, Barbara.
There is a good comparison of features in the CNET article, "Comparing Kindle 2 with Kindle's iPhone app."
http://bit.ly/kindlecomp
Josh, perhaps if they were thinking like you they wouldn't have had to cave in to the demands of the Author's Guild.
Posted by: Anthony Helm | March 05, 2009 at 08:54 AM
Well, since I haven't had the money or real inclination to buy a Kindle and I don't have an iPhone, I'll have to wait on this. Maybe I need to get an iPhone just to test it. This is a very promising development.
Posted by: Ridie | March 06, 2009 at 07:21 PM
Hi Ridie...you could get a Touch (that's what I have). Much cheaper, and no data plan - works the same way. Josh
Posted by: Joshua Kim | March 07, 2009 at 09:52 AM