iPhone apps from Houghton Mifflin Houghton—including American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
"In the first move by a major American publisher to publish iPhone-ready (and friendly) reference material, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has rolled out applications for four of its reference titles. The titles, which can be purchased in Apple’s App Store range in price from $29.99, for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, to $8.99 for Wall Street Words." - PW.
The TeleRead take: Amid all the fixation on the Kindle, I’m pleased that HMH also sees possibilities in the iPhone. What’s more, the American Heritage Dictionary isn’t just shovelware, but rather includes multimedia capabilities, such as audios of correct pronunciations.
Now if only the big publishers will appreciate the extent to which the iPhone could be a major recreational e-reading platform! The availability of the just-improved eReader should help; same for the forthcoming Mobipocket.
Detail: Customer reviews of the the AHD are mixed. Read carefully before buying. Rightly or wrongly, some say it’s Crash City and might even brick your machine.
Question: Any brave souls want to try this one and share the results?
August 29th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Detail: Customer reviews of the the AHD are mixed. Read carefully before buying. Rightly or wrongly, some say it’s Crash City and might even brick your machine.
As I was saying the other day - there are advantages to having a dedicated device for ebook reading and NOT opening up the Kindle to third party apps.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
eReader has a very decent selection of dictionaries, including Webster’s Unabridged, and they don’t crash.
As an added bonus, the dictionaries can even be used automatically by the eReader client to look up words in whatever fiction book you are currently reading. (Though I have yet to figure out exactly how this works on the iPhone version—I’ve managed to look up words accidentally while trying to do something else, but never on purpose.)
September 18th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Please note that the 2.1 update for the iPod/iPhone has been released.
This has solved all the problems that some people were experiencing with “bricking” after they had installed many applications or large applications or after updating applications.
Any bricking was not due to any single application such as the American Heritage Dictionary rather a combination of factors.
Thanks,
Tracey Northcott
Enfour, Inc.