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Books represent one out of every five new iPhone and iPod touch applications launched in Apple's App Store in October 2009 according to in-application analytics provider Flurry. After games led all iPhone app development categories between August 2008 and August 2009, books first usurped the top position in September of this year, Flurry reports, adding that in August, 1 percent of the entire U.S. population was reading a book on the iPhone. While games remain the dominant App Store category in terms of overall volume, Flurry notes that games slipped to about 13 percent of new iPhone applications released last month, down from 17 percent in July 2009.
With publishers of all sizes now porting existing IP into the App Store at a record pace, Flurry forecasts that Apple is now positioned to claim ebook market share from Amazon's Kindle ereader device, especially given the pending release of a larger tablet form factor that will run on the iPhone operating system.
For more on the Flurry App Store report:
- read this blog entry
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Comments
Posted by Robin Jewsbury | November 2, 2009 - 1:41pm
Interesting that this is ebook content is really simple static content and for these sort of simple content applications you don't even need to submit to the appstore at all; you can use the HTML5 offline capabilities to create a full installed local applications (or "Installed webapps").
It's now possible to download "Installed Webapps" as simple applications from http://eyemags.com. They use the "caching" available in the iPhone's HTML5 implementation and the apps created run from an icon and full screen just like iPhone apps downloaded from the appstore and yet you don't have to deal with the appstore. Furthermore you dpn;t have to be a developer to create these simple content applications. You create them on the web.
Try this http:/eyemags.com/23 for the Paris City Guide - there are 9,000 other apps to choose from as well.
Posted by Clint Brauer | November 3, 2009 - 11:41am
Interesting indeed to see the popularity of ebooks. Personally I cannot read them on my IPhone (screen is too small) But it's obvious not everyone has that issue.
Clint Brauer
General Manager
www.cyberread.com
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