Comments on: 1% of entire US population reading a book on the iPhone http://www.teleread.com/iphone/1-of-entire-us-population-reading-a-book-on-the-iphone/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Crotty http://www.teleread.com/iphone/1-of-entire-us-population-reading-a-book-on-the-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-1148549 David Crotty Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:49:00 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31629#comment-1148549 The folks at O'Reilly took a look at these numbers recently regarding games and books and did some debunking: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/games-top-the-charts-iphone-android-markets.html It should be noted that each individual book counts as its own app, which is probably why the numbers are tilting that way. It's kind of like saying that each mp3 for each song counts as an app. The folks at O’Reilly took a look at these numbers recently regarding games and books and did some debunking:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/games-top-the-charts-iphone-android-markets.html

It should be noted that each individual book counts as its own app, which is probably why the numbers are tilting that way. It’s kind of like saying that each mp3 for each song counts as an app.

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