Fictionwise, which was recently bought by Barnes and Noble, has launched a free e-book reader for the Blackberry. In an attempt to compete with Amazon's Kindle for iPhone application, it looks like Barnes and Noble is jumping into the market of e-readers for. To turn up the heat even more, Fictionwise promises an e-reader application for other Android and Linux phones in the future. Fictionwise's e-book store houses 60,000 e-books available, providing a much-needed boost to Barnes and Noble's e-book offerings.
I think this poses a stiff competition to the Kindle/iPhone behemoth, in that not everyone has an iPhone and the Kindle doesn't seem keen to open up to many, if any other, formats than the iPhone. This sort of "walled garden" approach that Amazon seems intent on fostering may (I hope) start to prove futile and monetarily costly for them.
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