This is the first of many posts in which I’m going to look at cool and interesting iPhone Web Apps – websites that have been made available in special iPhone-optimised versions. First up is book publisher HarperCollins with its Browse Inside site.
It lets you read the first few pages of a bunch of the publisher’s latest books, navigating by an A-Z author and title lists, or by checking out the most popular books. As a guide, the latter list currently includes Lewis Hamilton’s autobiography, Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Playing with Fire’, Doris Lessing’s ‘The Grass is Singing’, and the Dangerous Book For Boys yearbook.
Clicking through takes you to a summary screen for each book, with a Read button to go through to the pages, which you can zoom in and out of using iPhone’s Safari browser. They’re images of the actual pages, too, not just the basic text. Each has a Buy button too, which takes you through to Amazon’s own iPhone-enabled site. Browse Inside is a neat idea that’s well-implemented, and certainly useful if you’re thinking of buying books for people this Christmas.
Link: http://mobile.harpercollins.co.uk
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Nice one, For a ton of iPhone Apps check out the iPhone Application Gallery at http://www.appsafari.com/