It’s been another exciting match here in our long-running Faceoff Series, where two competing services, apps, or devices are pitted against each other for a fight to the finish. In this edition, we pitted relative newcomer Apple iBooks up against its most significant rival, the Amazon Kindle, to see who would win over the hearts and minds of Mashable readers.

The results are now in, and it looks like Amazon might have something to worry about down in Cupertino. Apple iBooks bested the Amazon Kindle with 48% of the vote to the Kindle’s 36%. Still a close race overall, Apple’s victory is nevertheless even more impressive considering the relative recentness of its entry into the digital books arena.

Interestingly, the “Neither: I prefer my books in analog format, thanks” option in the poll received a respectable 11% of the total vote, showing that a good chunk of digital natives still prefer it old skool style when it comes to books.

Were you surprised by the results from this week’s faceoff? Let us know in the comments! You can also check out the roster of past winners at the end of this post.

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Faceoff Series: Overall Results

Week 1:

Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome

– WINNER: Firefox, 4600 votes (Chrome: 3310 votes, Tie: 911 votes)

Week 2:

Tumblr vs. Posterous

– WINNER: Tumblr, 1809 votes (Posterous: 1496 votes, Tie: 256 votes)

Week 3:

Pandora vs. Last.fm

– WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes (Pandora: 1156 votes, Tie: 122 votes)

Week 4:

Twitter vs. Facebook

– WINNER: Facebook, 2484 votes (Twitter: 2061 votes, Tie: 588 votes)

Week 5:

WordPress vs. Typepad

– WINNER: WordPress, 2714 votes (Typepad: 267 votes, Tie: 357 votes)

Week 6:

Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard

– WINNER: Windows 7, 3632 votes (Snow Leopard: 3278 votes, Tie: 121 votes)

Week 7:

TweetDeck vs. Seesmic Desktop

– WINNER: TweetDeck, 3294 votes (Seesmic Desktop: 1055 votes, Tie: 260 votes)

Week 8:

Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs

– WINNER: Microsoft Office, 1365 votes (Google Docs: 994 votes, Tie: 315 votes)

Week 9:

Apple iPhone vs. Google Android

– WINNER: Google Android, 3323 votes (Apple iPhone: 1494 votes, Tie: 228 votes)

Week 10:

AT&T vs. Verizon

– WINNER: Verizon, 1161 votes (AT&T: 538 votes, Tie: 118 votes)

Week 11:

Google vs. Bing

– WINNER: Google, 2180 votes (Bing: 519 votes, Tie: 97 votes)

Week 12:

iPod Touch/iPhone vs. Nintendo DS vs. Sony PSP

– WINNER: iPod Touch/iPhone, 704 votes (Sony PSP: 639 votes, Nintendo DS: 482 votes, Tie: 108 votes)

Week 13:

Digg vs. Reddit vs. StumbleUpon

– WINNER: Digg, 14,762 votes (Reddit: 11,466 votes, StumbleUpon: 2507 votes, Tie: 1032 votes)

Week 14:

Old versus new Twitter retweets

– WINNER: Old style retweets, 1625 votes (New style retweets: 699 votes, Tie: 227 votes)

Week 15:

Gmail vs. Outlook

– WINNER: Gmail, 3684 votes (Outlook: 980 votes, Tie: 590 votes)

Week 16:

Boxee vs. Hulu

– WINNER: Hulu, 626 votes (Boxee: 591 votes, Tie: 106 votes)

Week 17:

Nexus One vs. iPhone 3GS

– WINNER: Nexus One, 6743 votes (iPhone 3GS: 2818 votes, Tie: 592 votes)

Week 18:

Foursquare vs. Yelp vs. Gowalla

– WINNER: Foursquare, 1182 votes, (Yelp: 661 votes, Gowalla: 509 votes, Tie: 143 votes)

Week 19:

AIM vs. GTalk vs. FbChat

– WINNER: GTalk, 2189 votes, (AIM: 1257 votes, FbChat: 511 votes, Tie: 203 votes)

Week 20:

Music Ownership vs. Music Subscription

– WINNER: Ownership, 533 votes (Subscription: 299 votes, Tie: 237)

Week 21:

Match.com vs. PlentyofFish

– WINNER: Plenty of Fish, 430 votes (Match.com: 334 votes, Tie: 187 votes)

Week 21:

Google Buzz vs. Facebook Vs. Twitter

– WINNER: Facebook, 3353 votes (Twitter: 1828 votes, Google Buzz: 1298 votes, Tie: 651 votes)

Week 22:

HTML5 vs. Adobe Flash

– WINNER: HTML5, 3892 votes (Adobe Flash: 1779 votes, Tie: 660 votes)

Week 23:

Project Natal vs. PlayStation Move

– WINNER: Project Natal, 1268 votes (PlayStation Move: 668 votes, None: I don’t like motion controllers: 170 votes, None: I prefer the Wii: 150 votes)

Week 24:

Chatroulette vs. Hot or Not

– WINNER: Chatroulette, 742 votes (Hot or Not: 281 votes, Tie: 99 votes)

Week 25:

iPad vs. Netbooks

– WINNER: iPad, 3098 votes (Netbook: 1969 votes, Tie: 605 votes)

Week 26:

– Amazon Kindle vs. Apple iBooks

– WINNER: Apple iBooks, 1227 votes (Amazon Kindle: 928 votes, Tie: 118 votes, Neither: 276 votes)

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