Could the iPhone Kill the Kindle?

[JMcEntegart]

According to a recent report on Forbes.com, one particular iPhone application is stepping on the toes of the Kindle ebook reader. So much so, speculation suggests the app will outsell Amazon’s one trick pony device by the end of the year.

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[AndrewMD]

eBook readers have been around since the Palm days... Heck Microsoft even bundled a reader with the Pocket PCs... Some people really want something that mimicks a book and the Kindle and Sony eReader both do this with the screen technoloy eInk. Now with everything there is going to be that small group that will buy books for the iPhone app just because they are so ingrossed with the phone and then there are others that will find the same satisfaction with the kindle....

They will both do good in their own market segements.

 

[Guest]

What a terrible headline. I don't see why everyone is making such a big deal out of this story. MILLIONS of people have iPhones, of course this little app will have more downloads than a $350 piece of hardware.

It must just be a slow tech news week.

 

[fuser]

Wow, this is truly shocking! More people are buying a $15 software download than a $360 ebook reader? Amazing!

I can't imagine reading books on a screen as small as the iPhone. The Kindle is superior thanks to its larger screen size and the eInk display is MUCH easier on the eyes.

 

[Bill Youns]

I own a Kindle and an iPhone and enjoy using both as ebook readers. In each case, I find the reading experience just as absorbing as reading the same book in print. But so far I give the nod to the iPhone because (1) as a backlit device, it can be read easily in the dark, and (2) the very same device, so very portable, also carries my music, digital books, weather reports, stock reports, web browser, a camera, photo albums, movies, map program, YouTube, calculator, and so on and so on. It even makes and receives phone calls!

 

[Guest]

Ohh, how shocking considering its iPHONE!

Sorry for the sarcasm. I'm just never gona switch from hardbooks to softbooks. ;-)
Altought when needed I do read ebooks on SE K810i. 😛 (no need for iphone, kindle or anything else - and aplication was free. 🙂 )