Amazon Consolidates Its Power, Acquires Stanza Digital Reader App For iPhone

[John Dishon]

From Galley Cat: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/web_tech/breaking_amazoncom_in...

[John McFetridge]

I don't have one but I have spent a little time with one. They read almost any kind of file so you can get the books anywhere you want, from any e-book seller and the Project Guttenberg books and a bunch of others.

[John Dishon]

You have one, don't you? I was thinking you've mentioned something about that before. Anyway, the Sony e-reader is a possibility. The question is whether or not Sony offers the kinds of books I like to read most (translated fiction and history books).

[John McFetridge]

Doesn't the Sony e-reader use all kinds of files? You can't download directly to it like the Kindle or iPhone, but it's not that big a deal to download to your computer and then load onto the e-reader.

[John Dishon]

Well, I generally dislike monopolies, but they're not doing anything illegal. I don't really care about this because I don't have an iphone and never plan to have an iphone.

What I don't like is that the Kindle only works in America, which is a shame, because I'm moving to Taiwan later this year, and since I can't bring all my books, an ebook reader would have come in handy. Oh well.

[John McFetridge]

So, John, what do you think about it?