Comments on: eReader iPhone/Touch app—after a month: On 130,000 devices, with 35,000 owners buying e-books for that platform

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:41:45 +0000

Fixed, Steve. Thanks for the catch. As I’ve noted, the change actually reinforces my major point—that cellphones will count big! David

Addendum: Just caught up with the headline as well.

By: Publishing potpourri for 100, Alex | Moriah Jovan

Publishing potpourri for 100, Alex | Moriah Jovan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:34:51 +0000

[...] Fictionwise’s eReader was downloaded on 130,000 iPhones in a month and Stanza is apparently only a little behind that as the ereading software alternatives to downloading ebooks-as-applications on your iPhone. I am a-quiver. [...]

By: Steve P.

Steve P. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:18:02 +0000

One slight correction, we’ve got 35,000 *people* who have bought ebooks for iphone/itouch, not 35,000 ebooks bought. We have far more than 35,000 books bought so far because most people buy multiple books.

So we have 180,000 downloads of the reader app. Some of those people only download free books, or use our new personal content feature to get content from other sites. But from our own site, 35,000 of those people have actually plunked down money and bought non-free books from us and actually downloaded them onto their apple devices.

Calvin actually words it correctly in his article, the misinterpretation is here in the teleread blog posting.

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:31:42 +0000

I tried it on my Razr 2 and it wouldn’t work yet. Maybe a future version.

As for eReader, who needs some namby-pamby “personal content server”? I’ve created eReader books using a text editor, search and replace with their standard markup, and the Linux command-line book maker.

By: Daniel Udsen

Daniel Udsen — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:27:05 +0000

The is a alpha vesion of mobipocket for java enabled cell phones it actually work quite well on my SonyEricson phone.