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iPhone beats Kindle
Bloggers are dissecting the news that the iPhone is beating Amazon's Kindle as most popular e-book reader, thanks to the free Stanza application.
According to a Forbes.com report "the iPhone is muscling into Amazon's home turf: reading books". Stanza, a book reading application offered in Apple's iPhone App Store since July, has been downloaded more than 395,000 times and continues to be installed at an average rate of about 5,000 copies a day, according to Lexcycle, the three-person start-up that created the reading software.
By comparison, Citigroup estimates Amazon will sell around 380,000 Kindles in 2008. Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey expects Sony's Reader will sell only a fraction of that number. In other words, writes Forbes, Apple may have inadvertently sold more e-readers than any other company in the nascent digital book market.
On blog TeleRead, Ficbot reports on their experience of buying the iPod touch and downloading eReader and Stanza, sharing the verdict on both.
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