iPhone beating e-readers at their own game?

For some the money's on gaming, but new research from Flurry is surprisingly different: eBook apps are overtaking games in the App Store. Between launch and August of this year, games outnumbered book apps and dedicated books in the catalog, comprising some 16-17% of all apps in July and August of 2009. But in late August of this year, book apps, which had been growing all along, overtook games, and by October games were just 13% of apps while books were 20% of the total.  Probably the most surprised will be Apple whose current iPod Touch advertising is extremely games-centric. You wouldn't read about it.

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/iphone-beating-e-readers-their-own-game
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/03/top-e-book-ipho/

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