Books overtake games in app store (1 in 5 new Oct. apps was a book) (via @gigaom)
Andrew Savikas
November 1, 2009
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"Book-related apps saw an upsurge in launches in September, according to a survey conducted by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile application analytics company. So much so, that book-related applications overtook games in the App Store as a percentage of all released apps. The trend isn't an aberration. In October, one out of every five new applications launching on the iPhone was a book, Flurry said."
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November 3, 2009 3:00 PM
But with regards to sales in the store, games are still no. 1: In the German iTunes store, the first ebook is on rank 33. Flurry also reports that in August 1% of the US citizens had one or more iPhone-books. It's still nothing compared to print.