Can Apple Make America Read Again?
It's been widely known that when approached about ebooks, Jobs said Americans just don't read anymore. I initially took offense to that until I realized there might be some truth to that. I don't know if reading is now an elitist thing to do but I was at Borders last night and I did see a good crowd there. I was at a different book store last week and I saw quite a line at the checkout counter. So I think it isn't that folks aren't ready anymore. The truth is, people aren't reading ebooks. Ebooks have been around for quite some years now. And digital growth for books are not growing as fast as other media like music. Can Apple Make America Read Again? Maybe. According to Forbes, Apple may have overtaken Kindle with respect to the number of folks using iPhones to read ebooks. I encourage heading over to look at it a bit. I don't like the flippant use of download numbers to suggest that more folks are using iPhone to read books t...