Amazone and Google race for books on phones

This is taken from this article in Rethink Wireless:

Amazon is also looking to port the software to general purpose smartphones, perhaps offering just a subset of the Kindle Store’s 230,000 books, targeting more casual readers. "We are excited to make Kindle books available on a range of mobile phones," spokesman Drew Herdener told the New York Times. "We are working on that now."

Google said on Friday that it is making titles from its PC-based Book Search service available for the Apple phone and the Android-based T-Mobile G1. This offers 1.5m public domain titles, which were previously scanned and released for free on the PC. The mobile version will be text-only, rather than scanned book pages.

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