Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) iPhone application, called Books.app, which is an e-reader.

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That number looks to grow with news that libraries may start to lend books out on the e-reader.

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In addition to this news, Intuit will soon begin shipping a free, newly-designed GoPayment Card Reader in both the U.S and Canada.

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Called "Mosaic, " the app offers a visually stunning, multi-touch screen designed to enable consumers to personalize and read all of their news via one reader and offer advertisers an innovative digital advertising model to target audiences.

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Now understand, dear reader, (to paraphrase Day To Day's Alex Chadwick) all news organizations are story-eating monsters.

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