AN APPLE A DAY... can keep the biz healthy too.

Isn't it crazy that you can do everything with an iPhone but download books? Write to the smart folks at Apple and ask for a book app.

Here's a smart blog post by Jason D. O'Grady about this idea.

Apple should add books to the iTunes Store

Comments

[Dan BLoom]

MJ

how does one contact the NYTimes or any other paper or book blog about a book soon to be published in NYC by a major publisher that very well might be a hoax or very embellished fibby kind of backstory, and yet the publishers do not know this and refuse to answer my emails or take my calls to warn them of this? It's another Oprah James Frey story ready to break, this time about a Holocaust memoir, but nobody in media seems interested even though there are top experts who know something is wrong here. Who to contact? You or Sam at Book Review? Motoko? Damien Cave in Florida bureau? Would love some direction on this other than EFF OFF. SMILE -- danny

[Carolyn Jewel]

Of course you can download books on the iPhone! I've been doing that since shortly after I got my iPhone in July. There are several readers; Stanza (my preferred) and eBook are just two. And now both allow purchasing of new releases. The problem now is the prices I've seen have been more or less ridiculously high.

[Danny Bloom]

THE BOOK ABOVE WAS CANCELLED. mY HARD WORK PAID OFF. nOW THIS

PRESS RELEASE
for immediate release
January 1, 2009

contact: Danny Bloom
Email: danbloom gmail
Tel: available on request

LINK
http://ijcm101.blogspot.com/

HEDLINE

Grassroots campaing asking Oprah to invite Herman Rosenblat on her
show one more time in future to apologize for his literary
fabrication, explain why he did it, ask forgiveness

TEXT

Dateline: Cybperspace: -- I am creating a national write-in campaign
here with a grassroots effort to ask Oprah to invite Herman on her
show in future to apologzie, ask forgiveness, explain why he did and
how and ... to move on with his life quietly and out of the spotlight.

I have already been in touch with Oprah's producers and there is a
good chance this might happen. Oprah will not attack Herman on air the
way she did with James Frey after his deceptions were uncovered. In
this case, she will allow Herman to answer to the public, explain
himself, apologize and ask forgiveness, from Oprah and the public, for
his literary faux pas.

The public may leave their comments pn the blog. You may frame them as
a letter to Oprah, which her producers in Chicago will read online
here, and you can make your voice heard about asking Oprah to invite
Herman on her show one last time to explain himself, to apologize to
Oprah and the public, to ask forgiveness and to move on with this life
from the point onward. We believe that he is a good man, and that he
just made a wrong decision by sticking with his made-up story for so
long. Now that the fabrication has been exposed by the media and his
book cancelled, it is time for Oprah to invite him on her show and let
him explain himself to her and to the public. I think there will be a
teaching moment here for everyone, for Oprah too, for Herman, too, and
for the viewing public.

I am in touch with Oprah's producers by email and phone now, and am
waiting word on what they will do with this suggestion. There is no
group sponsoring this write in campaign, just one lone blogger
following his heart. With the support of many other people who also
believe in forgiveness and moving on