“Last December, I wrote about an ebook killer app waiting to be built, and that I wanted for Christmas. I didn’t get it,” Chunka Mui blogs for Forbes. “But, with Apple’s introduction of iTunes Match, there’s a glimmer of hope that Apple (or Amazon or Google) could build my hoped-for app.”
“The app I want is an ebook system that lets me read every book in the rich way the web has taught me to love and expect: with multimedia, hyperlinks, and the ability to cross-reference and annotate,” Mui writes. “By ‘every book,’ I mean every book, not just the new acquisitions I’m making for my Kindle or iPad. The problem is the hundreds of books in print form that I already own and that have been relegated to second-class status. Any app that brings my old books across the chasm into the digital world would indeed be a killer app.”
“Apple’s iTunes Match has offered a model for how my desired ebook app might work. For $24.99 a year, Apple will give me iCloud access to songs in my existing digital music library, irrespective of whether I bought them on iTunes,” Mui writes. “That’s worthwhile for me, because I’ve ripped hundreds of my pre-iTunes CDs into my computer library over the years. It’s worthwhile for music labels, too, because they will share in the revenue with Apple and essentially get paid again for music that there’s no chance of me ever buying again.”
Read more in the full article here.
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