Tuesday 2 December 2008

Online Information, no FT - ePUB ok

At Online Information it appears to be true that there is no stand for the Financial Times. Not sure what to make of this.

Spoke to Bob Kasher, Director of Sales for the MPS Global Reader. His information is that the Stanza software for the iPhone has been downloaded half a million times and 20,000 books are downloaded each day. MPS now supoport the ePUB format and are switching all other content for e-books. I suggested this may change the idea of what a book is. How long a text is suitable for a mobile phone? He pointed out that the number 11 text on the Stanza numbers is War and Peace. Maybe people read a section at a time on route to actual paper.

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