Reading Steve Jobs. John Markoff ponders the scenario I’ve been predicting for a while: an Apple book reader. He sees it as a new multi-touch tablet device bigger than an iPod Touch. While that device may come, I think it would make sense to also have reader software on the iPhone and iPod.

In the current edition of This Week in Tech, Jerry Pournelle makes a prediction that I’ve made here several times before. Namely that the iPhone is perfectly positioned to be the book reader that finally catches on. Also noted was Amazon’s Kindle book reader, of which I hadn’t previously heard. (Price at $400? Ha!)

iPhone a book reader?

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Kottke points to a Booksquare post on how the iPhone, with its high-res screen, PDF support, and iTunes integration, is well-suited to be a viable ebook reader. Add to that, as I’ve noted here before, that Apple has been rumored to have already made deals with book publishers, and you get a new market Apple might be moving into.

Jan 15, 2007 | Comments Off | Tags: ,

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