Today's New York Times has a piece revealing Amazon's latest volley in the war against the printed page: Starting today users of iPhones and iPod touches can download e-books. Using an app called "Kindle For iPhone," Apple users can purchase books from the Amazon store, just like users of Amazon's own Kindle device. Whee!
The article continues by exploring the implications of the development, particularly what it means for the Kindle—once thought to be designed to corner the market on e-book downloads—and Apple, which analysts describe as side-stepping e-books entirely, presumably in keeping with Steve Jobs infamous dismissal of the Kindle: "The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore." (Boo!)
