If you have been watching TV lately, you may have caught this little commercial about iPhone and Classics. Classics is a cool iPhone application that brings you some of the most memorable classical books ever written. You get over a dozen of handpicked cool books to read from, which will keep you busy for quite some time. Classics makes it easy to read books and get back to them in the future. It remembers when you stopped, and you can relaunch from there.

The folks behind Classics have made every effort to bring a real reading experience to you with their application. Even when you flip through the pages, you feel you are reading the real thing (3D flip). And who could argue with the quality of work that is presented here:

• Dracula
• Treasure Island
• Pride & Prejudice
• A Christmas Carol
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Robinson Crusoe
• Paradise Lost
• Hound of the Baskervilles

Overall, if you are looking for a cool app that brings you over a dozen of cool classics in conjunction with a richer reading experience, you won’t go wrong with Classics.

The folks behind Renkara Media Group have developed three leadership summaries to help the students of business get a working knowledge of the latest business practices. These summaries are not a point here or there from the books. Rather, you are getting a magazine style digest of top business material. Overall, if you don’t have time to read a book, you can read the summary before deciding whether it’s worth to be read completely.

Here is what you get with these summaries:

• 5,000 word summary of each book
• 20-minute audio summary
• best points from best business books around
• built-in audio player

Here are topics covered in this series:

• Leadership Summaries volume 1
  1. Know-How by Ram Charan
  2. Get There Early by Bob Johansen
  3. Leadership Gold by John Maxwell
• Leadership Summaries volume 2
  1. The 360 Degree Leader by John Maxwell
  2. Crisis Leadership Now by Laurence Barton
  3. True North by Bill George and Peter Sims
• Leadership Summaries volume 3
  1. Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for An Answer
  2. A Leader’s Legacy
  3. The Leader of the Future II

Overall, if you are looking to get a refresher in business or learn new business tricks, you can’t go wrong with Soundview leadership summaries.

iPhone development is a highly in demand skill in the world of programming. The iPhone platform has enabled many businesses to reach out to new customers and take their businesses to the next level. iPhone in Action is one of the best books written to help developers pick up iPhone programming. Recently, I had a chance to review iPhone in Action (read the review here), and I’ve got to say, it was one of the best iPhone books I have ever read.

Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline have written a book that helps developers pick up and master the art of iPhone programming fast. Christopher is a leader in the iPhone development community, so you now you are getting the best stuff in this book.

The good folks at Manning Publishing have been kind enough to offer a free copy of this excellent book to one lucky reader of ours. The rules are very simple:

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The contest runs from March 3rd to March 13th 2009. All entries should be made by 11:59 PM EST. The winner will be announced on March 16th.

Winner: Using Random.org, comment #1 is the winner. Thank you all for participating. Stay tuned for more giveaways!