This week the Carnival of the Mobilists – the weekly line-up of the best blogs and bloggers on all things mobile – comes to us via Andy Favell over at MobiThinking, a valuable resource with a good selection of mobile advertising stats, reports and white papers. Between Andy’s outreach for old and new Mobilists to submit posts –and my eager tweets () encouraging more people to get involved – COM #214 attracted a whopping 40+ submissions(!). Thanks to Andy for his extra attention to collecting and ranking posts leaving us with the 10+ posts that made the grade.

AMONG THE HIGHLIGHTS:

What makes a book a book? Does the iPad potentially change all the rules? What is the impact on how teens and kids interact with information? Read this post from new member Peta Andersen and find out.

What are the key mobile healthcare companies, projects and takeaways from Mobile World Congress? The 3G Doctor, David Doherty, gives us a worthwhile roundup.

Mobile banking and payments are the focus of several posts this week. From the proper design to the importance of partnerships to the inside story on a trial of contactless payments (NFC) in Canada. It’s all here – so read on and find out.

Why is Apple determined not to support Flash? What is the link with differentiation? Francisco Kattan connects the dots, so read on and find out.