News Corp. continues its quest to dominate the mainstream media. One of the publishers it owns, HarperCollins, is now planning to offer selections from 14 books available for iPhone viewing. The move comes as HarperCollins tries to dive into the digital world and hype surrounding Apple’s successful phone. You’ll be able to use your iPhone, come August and September, to view snippets from books like “The Burnt House” and “Obama”.
Only 10 pages or so will be available for preview, but should the book interest you, a mobile option to purchase it will be there.
HarperCollins offers digital book content for iPhone [Reuters]
There is more profit in selling books electronically (no shipping, no printing etc.) then current paper editions… it’s a given that people in a few generations will wonder what the heck we where thinking printing all our stuff on bark.
Jon