iPhone Books Now Outnumber Games
Here’s a fun fact for those who think reading is dead – the number of books available for the iPhone/iPod Touch has just exceeded the amount of games on the platform.
According to Mobclix, we’re currently at 26,569 books compared with 25,079 games, which is incredible for a system that displays books in a tiny, hard to read format without any Kindle style e-ink tricks.
Could this be the publishers preparing for an avalanche of iPad sales? Could be, but think about this – it’s much easier to get an existing book converted to digital form than it is to create an entire game from scratch.
10% of the current stock of iPhone/iPod books are 100% free, which is a bit of a surprise – you can download the collected works of Shakespeare, for example, for free. It weighs in at a slim 29 megabytes, and owning it is sure to make you look much smarter than you are.
Source & Photo Source: VentureBeat
