Shortcovers is releasing a mini-application that lets people read books, short stories or other written works on Apple-made smart phones in a direct challenge to electronic book devices sold by Amazon and Sony.<\/p>\n
Shortcovers software will be available for free download after it clears Apple’s vetting process and makes it to the virtual shelves of iTunes online App Store.<\/p>\n
"People aren’t reading less, they are reading differently," Shortcovers User Experience Director Pamela Hilborn said while demonstrating the application at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
"Their attention spans are shorter."<\/p>\n
Shortcovers plans to make money selling best -selling books and other works to iPhone readers for 99 cents a chapter, with the first chapters free so people can look about for "their next great read," according to Hilborn.<\/p>\n
Shortcovers is a division of Canada-based Indigo Books & Music.<\/p>\n
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