New York Times: Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones
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.
Also Thursday, Amazon said that it was working on making the titles for its popular e-book reader, the Kindle, available on a variety of mobile phones. The company, which is expected to unveil a new version of the Kindle next week, did not say when Kindle titles would be available on mobile phones.
I welcome this move but I personally think that the future for books on phones will be audiobooks as I think that it’s a much more natural fit. I already listen to audiobooks on my mobile and as the amount of storage available increases and the data rates improve I think that people will increasingly buy and download audiobooks straight to their phones.
