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It’s been only a few days since hackers reported they have managed to fully unlock the iPhone, that the cracked handset version now pops up in Hong Kong, on a special sale offer. The price is huge, but those too eager to wait for it to officially arrive in their country have an expensive solution to satisfy their curiosity.
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Even though a Japanese publisher is already planning to bring literature – albeit in graphic art form – to the iPhone in the US, that hasn’t stopped mainstream publisher HarperCollins attempting to convince people there that reading books on phones is a good idea.
First step on that uphill journey is the launch of a pilot website that allows users of the iPhone to read up to 10 pages from the first few chapters of a book. Technology provided by LibreDigital allows them to adjust the print size, scroll through pages like normal iPhone documents and turn pages just like in real novels.
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Apple iPhone owners can now read books on the move with the release of an eBook reader application for the iPhone.
Books.app is a native eBook reader developed for the iPhone. As it’s not an authorised third party application, it’s not simple to install, according to MacNN . Users must first “jailbreak” (or open up) their iPhone’s file system and then install the software.
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