Bestselling Books Come to the iPhone

Bestselling titles like Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass can be downloaded directly to iPhones for the first time, Wired reports. ScrollMotion, a New York app developer, has struck a deal to download e-books from Houghton Mifflin, Simon & Schuster, and other major publishers. Other iPhone e-book apps exist, but only for out-of-copyright titles or without direct downloads.

ScrollMotion offers other perks: It keeps books' original pagination, and allows users to make notes and search through text. The app will likely make iTunes a viable e-bookshop and enable iPhones to compete with other e-book readers, such as Kindle and the Sony E-Reader. (More iPhone stories.)