Literacy news
iPhone book applications overtake games for the first time
2 Nov 2009
Books have become the most popular applications downloaded on the Apple iPhone according to new research by Analytics firm Flurry. The report states that games were the number one category of apps downloaded between August 2008 and August 2009. However, in the past four months book apps have dramatically increased and during September, book apps exceeded games apps for the first time. In October one in every five apps launched was a book.
Flurry predict that Apple could steal the market share from Amazon’s Kindle’s eBooks, as book publishers rush to adapt their books for the AppStore.
Flurry compiled its research using a sample size of over 2,500 applications, 40 million consumers and looked at usage patterns across four platforms: Apple (iPhone and iPod Touch), Blackberry, JavaME and Google Android.
Read the full story on the Daily Telegraph website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/6484962/Book-apps-overtake-games-on-iPhone.html
