Your phone screen maybe only 2 inch or less. It is difficult to use that phone to read something written in thousand lines. But yet, now cellphones have capability of displaying electronic versions of books. Boston-based Houghton Mifflin, agreed to work with Mobifusion, a Silicon Valley firm, to make some of the publisher’s reference and children’s books available in mobile versions.

The first title to be digitalized into cellphone is “Fast Food My Way” by celebrity chef Jacques Pepin. The e-book is hopefully out by the end of the year. The cost is probably the same with its book price, US$ 30.

Houghton Mifflin’s David Langevin, “You could be at Dean and Deluca in New York and look up the recipe for what you’re going to make for dinner that night, so with your phone, you know what to shop for. That seems a lot more functional than the print book.”

Harpercollins UK recently announced a deal with Apple to make excerpts of the publisher’s books available free on Apple’s iPhone in Britain. In addition, the phone will carry author interviews and audio clips of writers reading from their work.

Source: Seattle Times via Schu

Share This

 Print Posted by Amir Karimuddin on November 26th, 2007