Well, new year, new Wii U rumors:

"Nintendo is planning to launch a digital e-reader type service where you can download books, magazines, newspapers, comics, and other publications to your Wii U console. These publications would stream to your Wii U controller’s touchscreen, and you could go lay in your bed or couch and read them. The touch screen would be used to flip through pages of an e-book or magazine, and there would even be a searchable index."

"Nintendo has also talked about possibly making electronic versions of their official strategy guides which were called “Players Guides” available for download for virtual console games."

"Also, Nintendo is looking into having electronic instruction booklets made available for virtual console games that you download.  These would be electronic versions of the instruction booklets that would be packaged into older SNES or N64 games, and you could flip through them on your Wii U controller."

"Another interesting part of this story is that Nintendo is interested in making every single issue of Nintendo Power (from 1988 to currently) available for download to be read on the Wii U’s touchscreen controller."

Source:

http://www.forgetthebox.net/mag/culture/forum-m/nintendo-e-readers.php

Tbh this makes sense along with the app store rumor, making the U's feature useful outside gaming this will help appeal to the extended crowd.

Nintendo's doing it backwards if they're having iOS content go to their platform ;)

It seems Nintendo wants to try to be the first to bridge the gap between iOS style apps and games and traditional video games. If they implement it right it could be extremely lucrative for them. The next question is, will Microsoft and Sony follow suit or follow the path they're currently on?

i really like this idea, hoping its true. :)

Could be pretty awesome.

That sounds pretty cool actually

Too good to be true...

lol

iOS content sounds feasible, given the nature of the controller, but I would get my hopes up for e-books and newsprint because a similar thing was rumored for the 3DS, and never happened.