Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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In a move that could bolster the growing popularity of e-books, Google said Thursday that the 1.5 million public domain books it had scanned and made available free on PCs were now accessible on mobile devices like the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1.
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John Evans on 06 Feb 09Do people over 30 really want to look at books on their cellphones?
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John Evans on 06 Feb 09Porbably not!
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“We are excited to make Kindle books available on a range of mobile phones,” said Drew Herdener, a spokesman for Amazon. “We are working on that now.”
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Unlike the version of Google Book Search for PCs, which displays scanned images of book pages, the mobile version simply displays text, allowing users to download printed material more quickly over wireless networks.
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