Ebook Apps and the smartphone

Ebook apps are all over the smartphone platform.  There are over 20,000 apps and ebook apps are starting to show up.  Here is the breakdown on a variety of platforms:

• 37  for i Phone
• 22 for Android
• 14 for Palm
• 13 for Windows Mobile
• 10 Generic feature phone
• 10 for Blackberry

Here is a sample of one..

Sony says that ebooks will take over paper

The growing ebook market will probably take over traditional paper books.  They thought it might take 10 years but now they are estimating 5 years.   Sony may be a little optimistic because they sell ebooks for their ebook reader.   Here is a sample of their ebook.

E-books catching on with readers

E-book sales are seeing a significant upswing, said Hugh McGuire, CEO of Book Oven, an online company that builds Web tools for publishing e-books and print-on-demand titles.

“The U.S. wholesale e-book market was about $50 million in 2008 (retail would be about double), but it’s growing exponentially,” McGuire said, citing figures from the International Digital Publishing Forum, a group that tracks the e-book market. McGuire said that in the first quarter of 2009, the wholesale market was about $25.8 million, an increase of 53 percent over the previous quarter.