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A very good article on the subject. I agree with Bill 100%. BTW. Although Bill writes about the iPhone, these numbers apply to the iPod Touch as well.

ZappTek sells ebooks for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Closed, proprietary, adding lots of friction to the movement of ideas. It’s a good model, if you want to sell content. Not the best one if you want to sell ideas.

I just published the first edition of “Publishing eBooks for the iPhone and iPod Touch, 1st ed.”, an introduction to publishing ebooks for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a short ebook that gives you the basic facts and numbers. And it’s a good example of how an ebook on an iPhone can look like. It’s only 1.99 USD.

Apple has sold over 4 million iPhones. The number of iPod Touch devices sold is not known, but if we think of a number around 2 million we should not be far off the mark. That’s 6 million devices capable of downloading, displaying, and sharing ebooks in the PDF format. But that’s not all. Apple has announced its plans to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008. Add to that a very conservative estimate of 4 million iPod Touch devices and we are talking about a market of approximately 14 million devices. None of those devices are more than a year old. That’s a huge market waiting for content.

I spotted this story when I was reading Sherman Young’s post on Nick Hornby’s comments about ebooks. Think about it, if people are already lining up for iPhones, are you ready to deliver your ebooks to the iPhone? How do you do it? Read my book to find out how.