Kindle is now all over the palce. After the recent announcement of new 3G and wifi-alone kindle, Amazon has just released an update of kindle for iPhone/iPad. As you can see in the pictures, when you highlight an word a pop-up window from below appear with defination of the word, and give you choices to look-up on Google as well as wikipedia. This is a fantastic idea.
When you get an update of the app on your iPhone or iPodTouch or iPad, please wait a couple of minutes, and keep the app open at it’s homescreen. After a little while the dictionary will start downloading. Once the download is finished, you can use the new dictioary look-up.
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Can you remember what Steve Jobs once said about book-reading?:

It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “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.

And the answer to

Accoding to mobile application analytics company, flurry:

……the number of applications released to the App Store, by category, since its inception. From August 2008 to August 2009, more apps were released in the Games category than any other. This September, however, we observed another category, Books, usurping Games for the first time ever……..

In October, one out of every five new apps launching in the iPhone has been a book. Publishers of all kinds, from small ones like Your Mobile Apps to mega-publishers like Softbank, are porting existing IP into the App Store at record rates. Flurry first evaluated the iPhone as an eBook reader in its July Pulse (“You Trying to Swindle my kindle?”) where it looked at consumer demand for eBooks. In that report, we observed that during the month of August 1% of the entire U.S. population was already reading a book on the iPhone. Now, with books shipping in droves, we are seeing the supply-side explode.

The sharp rise in eBook activity on the iPhone indicates that Apple is positioned take market share from the Amazon kindle as it did from the Nintendo DS. Despite the smaller form factor of the display, we predict that the iPhone will be a significant player in the book category of the Media & Entertainment space. Further, with Apple working on a larger tablet form factor, running on the iPhone OS, we believe Jeff Bezos and team will face significant competition.

Om Malik on GigaOM says:

Since its launch, the iPhone has quickly mutated from an Internet-enabled smartphone to a gaming device — and now an e-reader. It is only a matter of time before someone figures out a new role for the iPhone. Unless the Apple Tablet becomes a reality, I think there is going to continue to be a market for dedicated e-readers, mostly because it is impossible to read large amounts of text on a smaller screen.

Now I can only wait and see whether Apple really comes out with larger screen iPodTouch, or Apple Slate as indicated by NYTimes Executive editor Bill Keller. There is wide speculation that the Slate will be out in the first quarter of next year.

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