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Over at BookOven, Hugh McGuire tells us that the iPhone application Stanza has been acquired by Amazon. This is very significant, but I haven’t the foggiest clue why. Luckily, we have people like Moby Dick-reading Hugh to help:
Stanza is what convinced me that ebooks were real, and I’ve spent more time reading books on Stanza than I have reading book books [McGuire's term for e-books] since I first set eyes on the simple, clear interface in October of 2008. In fact I was up with a bout of insomnia last night, at 3 am, reading Moby Dick on Stanza.
For those at the back, Stanza is an application that allows people who shelled out for an iPhone to read e-books. For the price, I hope an iPhone will also do laundry and mow my lawn, yes?
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April 28th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
The iPhone does do laundry, but it always puts your niece’s new red socks in with your white stuff. It’s not even an accident– it just thinks you look good in pink. And you’re supposed to believe it, because computers can’t lie.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:15 am
The big problem for me is that all that consolidation in the eBook market may very well lead to a virtual monopoly owned by Amazon.
See: [see link above]