[読んだ] The App Boom Hits Publishing - 7/6/2009 - Publishers Weekly
The mobile marketplace also holds serious implications for the emerging market for dedicated readers. How will book apps for smartphones affect the future of dedicated reading devices like the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader? Would you spend $400 on a device that limits you to reading? Or spend the same amount—or less—on a device that can enable you to read books, browse the Web without restriction, make phone calls, watch video and listen to music? “Over time, a lot more electronic reading will be done on multipurpose devices,” Shatz says. “But I'm not really sure that the notion of application versus book or even smartphone versus dedicated reading device is really going to be a critical distinction.” In other words—this market is still too young to proclaim winners or losers.
電子書籍への需要が高まるなかで、出版社もまだ模索が続いてるようですね。
デバイスとしてはiPhone/iPod touchが一歩抜きん出ているとはいえ、App Storeの使い勝手の悪さは出版社にも悩みのタネみたいです。