Have you seen the movie? No, but I’ve read the iPad.

Writing a book is hard work and selling it is equally difficult. That’s why publishers were invented.

But something is happening in the book business and the change is driven by mobile web tablets: books are going digital.

While the Amazon Kindle is a great product, it’s also very limited. No, the mobile web tablet from Apple, iPad, is what will bring ebooks to the masses. In fact, this is already happening on that smaller web tablet from Apple, the iPhone.

Books will most likely be sold just like any other application as part of the One Billion Apps App Store, which is basically an app store for every digital content item you can think of, way beyond the current scope of about 150’000 apps.

No one is building exactly this, yet, but the pieces of the puzzle are coming together. We’re moving towards a world where you will use the phone to buy digital content of any kind. We’re seeing it in MoSyncs’ cross platform app stores, we’re seeing it in how books outnumber games on the iPhone and we’re seeing it in initiatives such as Creations from Sony Ericsson. (Updated: an adult app store. Another example.)

The One Billion Apps App Store is coming.

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