With the release of Apple’s ambitious App Store today, the company puts themselves in the ebook business without having to go through the messiness of dealing with publishers. Among the free app downloads is Fictionwise’s eReader software (bundled with free copies of the public domain books, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes and James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans). As indicated in the comments section of the TeleRead blog, the software was coded by Peanut Press co-founder Lee Fyock and another ex-peanut developer, Chris Eplett. Fictionwise’s Steve Pendergrast notes in the same thread that “in the coming […]
