iPhone eBook Reader Stanza Reaches 2 Million Users
Jul 13th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: General, iPods & Portable Media PlayersAmazon today announced that more than 2 million users have downloaded Lexcycle Stanza, an electronic book reader application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Stanza users have downloaded over 12 million books.
“These milestones highlight that many people are quite comfortable reading full length books via Stanza on their iPhones and iPod touch. From commercial titles by Stephenie Meyer and Dan Brown to public domain titles by F. Scott Fitzgerald and H.G. Wells, we are thrilled to learn that Stanza has been partially responsible for a lot of people reading more in the past year than they have in years prior to that,†said Neelan Choksi, CEO of Lexcycle. “We want to thank Stanza users for their support over the past year.â€
In addition to the iPhone / iPod touch version of Stanza, a desktop version is available for Mac and PC, which supports saving files for the Kindle. The Mac version also supports text-to-speech conversion of books into AudioBook.
[…] and others, but I was also happy to see him put in a good word for my choice by far, Stanza, now downloaded by some two million people. Baker’s one-million estimate is out of date. I love Stanza because it is so bleepin’ […]