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iPhones, teenagers, future of reading

November 16th 2007 at 4:57 pm

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.

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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.