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iPhones, teenagers, future of reading

Booksquare has a good article that summarizes my obsession with the iPhone as the perfect e-reader platform if someone would get their stuff together.

I can only hope that when the Software Developers Kit gets launched in January someone like Fictionwise.com makes a version that runs on the iPhone, lets you pop your credit card or paypal signature in and buy books till you pop.

Filed under the topic Tech on November 16th 2007 at 4:57 pm. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.

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1. Steve Buchheit on Nov 17th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Since iPhone and iPod Touch run a full version of Safari, which is XML compliant, why not use an XML web delivery system? Of couse, it wouldn’t work without a live connection, unless you had it in cache. Although I’m sure it could be delivered and served off the local memory. I would have to look at XML more to see what kind of feature set you could work into it.
2. tobias buckell on Nov 20th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
The Kindle uses an XML system of some sort, hence my thinking that someone has got to apply this thinking to the iPhone.

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