The number of books available as iPhone apps now exceeds the number of games. The iPad–and better functioning iPad-like devices being released by other companies soon–is likely to spark a reading revolution that will also touch the Christian writers and publishers.
According to data released earlier this month by the mobile phone advertising company Mobclix, there are more than 27,000 books now available as apps. Games lag behind, with 25,400 published this year, followed by entertainment, education and travel.
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Where is publishing headed? Will books give way to movies and television and will libraries become nothing more than museums? Will the publishing and bookselling industries collapse? Is there any hope for the future? U.K. educational publisher Dorling Kindersley (DK) has created a video that shows us that there is indeed hope for those who respond properly to the marketplace.
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Stang Communications, publishers of Charisma + Christian Life magazine, launched the digital version of the magazine in January, and they intend to send it to 300,000 people in May. The digital edition is not merely a website, but the facsimile of the printed version of the magazine using the iMirus platform, which is also home to a variety of other digital editions of magazines such as Forbes, Better Homes & Gardens and Car and Driver.
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What is a “Kindle?” It’s an e-book reader being heavily promoted by Amazon.com. Big companies like Microsoft and Adobe have taken shots at producing an e-book reader that people would love enough to give up books printed on paper, but they failed. Now, Amazon.com has released Kindle 2.
Most of us have a heavy reliance on the Adobe Acrobat Reader, though it is a general purpose reader, and does not lend itself to novels and non-fiction. It’s better for business-related documents, though many people use it to distribute books. [Read More]
