Apple's App Store filling up with Books?

Seth Weintraub
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April 19, 2009
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According to Ben Lorica from O'Reilly, "Books as Apps" is the fastest growing segment of application developement in the App store.  Here's what's happening: Instead of just selling an eBook through Amazon and the other online distributors, Publishers (with help from developers like Scrollmotion) are creating their own app out of a book.  They can then sell the app with all of the freedom that Apple has allowed its other developers.   The "Books as Apps" category has grown 280% in the last three months alone and is threatening to overtake categories like Entertainment and Games.  Read more.

Comments (3)

DJ DIK (not verified) | April 19, 2009 - 9:26pm

Watch when navigation jumps up a few notches. buy AAPL stock now. thank you TomTom for developing something very useful to us all.

Free iPod (not verified) | April 20, 2009 - 12:13am

I am a great believer that the iPhone/smartphone will soon become the gadget that you use to control your life and will use it to do everything with, and this books app just confirms my thoughts.

I can just imagine myself sat in the park, reading a book on my iPhone and then quickly accessing the Internet or checking emails or a phone call for a bit of business, then returning to my book to finish reading.

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9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 20, 2009 - 6:51am

Nobody reads anymore, right Steve?