As yet another indication that publishing is shifting to the eBook world, O'Reilly Media is in the process of putting together a version of their popular HTML 5/XHTML Reference book specifically for Apple's iPhone/iPad. It will also work with Google's Android operating system, though the beta is still a little buggy there. Pay attention on what kind of hit count they get from these mobile devices.
Computer reference books actually make remarkably good fodder for mobile hand-helds as eBooks; they are generally structured as discrete topics rather than continuous narratives, and if you're coding on a laptop or desktop and need to look up an API call or how a particular tag is utilized, having your iPhone, Android or Kindle sitting as a quick finger stroke reference could prove very useful. For more information, check out their beta site at http://htmlref.labs.oreilly.com/.
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