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I’ve been waiting excitedly for this app to come out.

There were rumblings about it bundled in with the Kindle 2 news, but I felt like I would have to wait longer than this for it to come out for some reason.

I wasn’t waiting for the Kindle app because there weren’t any other ebook apps. As it is, I’ve already read some ebooks on my iPhone, such as World War Z from Fictionwise with the eReader app and Ulysses from Book Glutton with the Stanza app.

Instead, the reason I was waiting for this app was price. In fact, just the other night I was considering buying Spook Country from Fictionwise, but at around $20 it was just too expensive, especially compared to the Kindle version for $10.

My first thought, then, is to wonder just how negative an effect this will have on Fictionwise. I notice that they have already dropped the price of Spook Country down to about $14. With a club membership the price would be slightly lower, and truth be told I do like reading on the eReader app better than the Stanza app or the Kindle app. So, it still might be worth it to get the book through Fictionwise afterall now that the prices are so much closer to each other, but I don’t know how many others will lean towards this option.

Edit: As of 2009-03-06 the price of Spook Country on Fictionwise is back up to over $20. Maybe they weren’t trying to compete with the Kindle’s prices after all, to their detriment, I predict.