1 App I'd Like to See in the Apple iPhone App Store - A Kindle KIller
The release of the 3G iPhone on Friday is overshadowing a more important iPhone release the same day, the Apple iPhone App Store. I have high hopes for the store. Back in the day I had dozens of applications on my Palm Pilot, Palm III, and Palm V. All were simple little apps that did one or two things very well.
Here is one App I'd like to see:
A book reader that reads several formats: txt, doc, pdf, and the Amazon Kindle format. I used to be able to drop Web pages, documents, and PDF's into my Palm V and read them in a simple auto-scrolling reader. I'd like to do the same with my iPhone. A bonus would be if somebody write an app that let me buy Kindle books from Amazon, so I could have the Kindle experience on my iPhone. Would Amazon allow this? I'd pay the same fees, just not buy the Kindle, and I get the impression that Amazon makes no money on it anyway. This would be Kindle Killer.
Labels: Amazon Kindle, Apple iPhone



2 Comments:
Joe,
I am looking forward to the iPhone App Store too. I am hoping that the number of applications far exceeds what was available on the Palm, due to the popularity of the iPhone, and the ability to build on pre-existing Cocoa code.
As far as eBooks on the iPhone go, some people have created work arounds that convert ebook format books into a series of images that can be read using the photo viewer on the iPhone. You can also read books in the browser by navigating to Project Guttenburg (but they only have public domain books).
I think the real answer would be for Apple to put out its own dedicated ebook reader.
Hi Joe, I responded to your post over at Dogear-Nation - http://dogearnation.com/2008/07/06/dogear-nation-episode-58-kindle-rules/ Hopefully we will have trackback setup some day.
Michael R.
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