[Web4lib] library-related apps for the iPhone?

[Jane Jorgenson]

Not a library app but this site did a comparison review of the 
Ereader and Bookshelf apps that are available for the new 
iPhone. 
http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/07/13/review-ereader-and-bookshelf-app-for-iphone/ 
This is a romance blog but the authors have been very interested in 
ebooks and readers and they've spent a lot of time researching the 
best/easiest to use.

Jane Jorgenson
Madison Public Library
Madison, WI

At 08:47 AM 7/15/2008, you wrote:
>Hi all, Peter Brantley has an interesting blog post 
>[http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/07/14/the_show_room_library] 
>in which he laments the lack of ebook or library-related apps for 
>the iPhone, citing this past weekend's 3G launch as a missed opportunity.
>Is anyone working on such an application?  If it's for a small 
>audience (patrons of one community or institution) will Apple even 
>allow it in the store, or does it have to be an application from 
>someone like OCLC that can scale to collections worldwide?