Comments on: Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Majek’s Goldilocks: A Sign of Things to Come: Apple « http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-301130 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:01:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-301130 [...] Majek is experimenting with app-based distribution as well (iTunes Link). While we’ve seen individual books as stand alone apps, and more recently, magazines and newspapers delivered the same way, we’ve yet to see TV-type [...]

]]> By: Majek’s Goldilocks: A Sign of Things to Come: Apple « http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-301131 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:01:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-301131 [...] Majek is experimenting with app-based distribution as well (iTunes Link). While we’ve seen individual books as stand alone apps, and more recently, magazines and newspapers delivered the same way, we’ve yet to see TV-type [...]

]]> By: 5 Ways Windows Phone 7 Could Bite Into Android: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-294941 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:03:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-294941 [...] Games matter and it’s a partly the reason why the iPhone and the iPod touch have been so successful. For the longest time, games have been the largest category in the iTunes App Store. [...]

]]> By: Thomas The Train Toys http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242620 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:37:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242620 [...] Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone – GigaOM [...]

]]> By: Books as Virtual Reality http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242619 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:02:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242619 [...] Ingram’s post on the Gigaom blog entitled Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone is interesting because we tend to think of books as old world media, not the stuff of touch screens [...]

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]]> By: Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone « Cell Bytes http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242617 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:04:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242617 [...] [GigaOM via Mobclix] [...]

]]> By: Books outnumber games on offer for Apple’s iPhone | Today In Tech http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242616 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:29:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242616 [...] Via GigaOM.com [...]

]]> By: Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone - Mobile News http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242615 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:32:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242615 [...] [GigaOM via Mobclix] [...]

]]> By: Veille technologique du 2 mars au 3 mars http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242614 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:02:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242614 [...] Les livres plus nombreux que les jeux dans l’Apple Store – According to Mobclix, which does mobile advertising for apps, the number of books in the iTunes store now exceeds the number of games for the first time since the device was launched, making books the largest category in the store. The numbers from Mobclix, which keeps a regular tally on the most popular apps and downloads, show that there are more than 26,000 books in iTunes, compared with a little over 24,000 games. [...]

]]> By: Más libros que juegos en la App Store « bitaminados http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242613 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:46:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242613 [...] GigaOM [...]

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242612 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:46:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242612 I kind of see your point, Jim, but I think books and games are more comparable than you think. There are lots of iPhone apps I’ve downloaded and played with once (if that), and there are some books that I’ve downloaded awhile ago that I’m still going back to and reading.

]]> By: ajlburke http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242611 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:38:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242611 It looks like the original article is just comparing the number of apps, rather than the number of downloads, or the number of books acquired from within an app.

I gather that the large number of book apps is from hacks just wrapping up Project Gutenberg texts in reader template apps and pushing them into the App Store – like spam, but with classic texts.

Project Gutenberg boasts 30,000 free books online, and there’s almost that many book apps in the store – I’m guessing that’s not a coincidence.

That said, I think the next few years is going to be very interesting for the e-book model.

]]> By: Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone – Gigaom.com | Bargain Ebook Readers http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242610 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:32:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242610 [...] Post By Google News Click Here For The Entire Article March 2nd, 2010 | Category: [...]

]]> By: iptiam (iPad, Therefore I am) http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242609 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:28:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242609 Thanks for the post, good points.

This is tricky terrain, to say the least. For (probably) the first time, Apple is trying to disrupt an industry that has already been disrupted by an equally innovative player. Amazon has more than one reason to be worried. We came up with two questions:

  1. What happens to the Kindle Reader App now?
  2. Amazon’s Dilemma: Sell More Kindles Or Sell More eBooks
]]> By: jim http://gigaom.com/2010/03/02/books-now-outnumber-games-on-the-iphone/#comment-242608 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:21:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=102887#comment-242608 Talk about comparing apples to oranges. You cannot compare a book to a game. Would you say iTunes has more music albums than games?

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