Comments on: New e-reader for iPhone: Enhanced Editions http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-e-reader-for-iphone-enhanced-editions/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Aaron Pressman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-e-reader-for-iphone-enhanced-editions/comment-page-1/#comment-1098004 Aaron Pressman Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:59:15 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/08/new-e-reader-for-iphone-enhanced-editions/#comment-1098004 It's kind of silly to make a big deal about the relative popularity of Barnes & Noble shopping app, which lets you buy actual stuff like books, CDs and DVDs that are shipped to your house, versus ereader apps, which are for reading electronic books. I was a little puzzled that the shopping app was even in the books section of the App store. Amazon also has a shopping app but it's in the lifestyle category. I think all this means is that a shopping app is more popular than ebook reading apps. Has B&N said much about developing another ereader beyond the one they just bought? Kind of surprised they haven't re-branded it yet. Maybe that is a sign they are planning an additional app. It’s kind of silly to make a big deal about the relative popularity of Barnes & Noble shopping app, which lets you buy actual stuff like books, CDs and DVDs that are shipped to your house, versus ereader apps, which are for reading electronic books. I was a little puzzled that the shopping app was even in the books section of the App store. Amazon also has a shopping app but it’s in the lifestyle category. I think all this means is that a shopping app is more popular than ebook reading apps.

Has B&N said much about developing another ereader beyond the one they just bought? Kind of surprised they haven’t re-branded it yet. Maybe that is a sign they are planning an additional app.

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