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Old 04-27-2009, 11:08 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by anurag View Post
Stanza has built-in Gutenberg and FeedBooks catalog integration which most iPhone users would prefer to Google any day.
I obviously misunderstood, I am sorry. I meant Google as an ePUB source, they recently ganged up with Sony and offered 500,000 or so ePUB titles for download. Crappy quality, mostly OCR's of public domain titles, but still...

I wouldn't dream of undermining iPhone/iTouch as a reading platform, that is a huge segment. Yet, I somehow think that it will take more than this acquisition to stifle one Project Gutenberg, or any other name from your list. Community efforts/non-profit organizations are notoriously difficult to kill.
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