Kindle vs iPhone
Forbes reports that e-reader Stanza for the iPhone has been downloaded 395,000 times, and is still serving 5,000 a day. The Kindle is expected to sell 378,000 this year.
The Alley Insider lists a number of reasons why the content and the iPhone hardware will limit the threat to the Kindle, like battery life, screen size, and the availability of books.
But the iPhone could still steal a whole lot of people’s reading time that the Kindle would like to have, like reading newspapers, blogs, and other ’short forms’, which comprise most of my reading habits nowadays. Then the kindle is relegated to new books only. Not nothing, but less than what Amazon imagined surely.
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