In addition to writing for TeleRead, I also write some freelance articles for the Springfield Business Journal, a local weekly business paper. Although this particular article was not one of mine, I thought it interesting enough to mention anyway. One of the Journal’s writers has written about iPad users in the Springfield, Missouri business community.
Local iPad users interviewed for the article include Andy Ford, an executive at the Noble advertising agency, Springfield Mayor Jim O’Neal, and David Raley, a field representative from the Assemblies of God. One of the areas covered is, of course, e-books.
The iPad has even converted e-reader fans. Raley says his wife sold her Sony Reader shortly after she got her iPad. O’Neal uses the Kindle app and has purchased about 50 books from his Kindle that can be transferred to the iPad, he says. Ford says he loves his Kindle, but he’s spending a lot less time with it now.
“I was very, very skeptical. When I bought the iPad, I thought, I’m going to carry the Kindle and the iPad,” he says. “But I’m looking in my bag, and the Kindle isn’t in it.”
The article also mentioned that Ford and O’Neal use Bible e-books or applications on their iPads at church.
