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Originally Posted by bhartman36
Stanza can be used to read books on the iPhone, a Windows PC, or a Mac. I don't have much doubt that with a little extra work, an app can be put out for Blackberry or the upcoming Palm Pre. The idea would be to get it working on as many platforms as possible so that Amazon could sell books.
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Yeah, that makes sense to me. I have a Sony 505, but I'm on the verge of switching to the Kindle. Why?
Two reasons - one is that I have a Mac & the Sony Bookstore won't work with Mac. This has become an increasingly frustrating thing, because of things like updating firmware, authorizing my iPhone to read Adobe, and just generally limiting my access to ebooks.
But the larger reason is that I have an iPhone, and when you put Amazon's large library together with the sync between the iPhone K app & the Kindle, the convenience of being able to read on the Kindle at home or commuting, and then the same book at the same page while standing in line somewhere and then later at home becomes a very nice feature indeed.
So if Amazon gets an app on more mobile platforms, it might sell more Kindles to people like me. Not to mention more ebooks in general.
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The most immediate effect of this will be that the Kindle can work seamlessly with Fictionwise. Longer term, it means that we could be in for a real format war, with both sides trying to a) be compatible with the most devices and b) have features the other one lacks.
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I don't understand how this works. Why would Amazon want the Kindle to buy books from Fictionwise, a division of Barnes & Noble?