Kassia Krozser Ruined Today’s Blog Post
Like many a geek, I feverishly refreshed web pages during yesterday’s Apple event - waiting to get that next scrap of gadgety goodness Steve Jobs throws our way every so often. The new iPod touch is actually the first iPod I have ever actually wanted, and I immediately started thinking about the applications one could build for its WiFi-enabled Safari browser.
Yesterday I started writing a post outlining my reasoning for proclaiming the iPod touch as the ideal e-book platform, and as I prepared to finish the piece last night I see the very smart Kassia Krozser at the Booksquare blog has beaten me to the punch with a post entitled Apple Saves the Publishing Industry.
So, go ahead and read her thoughts on the matter. Go ahead, I won’t be offended - she’s right after all.
When will we stop trying to create a dedicated e-book reader and simply adopt our content to devices consumers already want and use? This may be a real opportunity for content creators to build products for a “for real” device. Granted, the storage is on the small side, but its a first generation product and that is sure to improve.
What do you think? Can adoption of a product like the new iPod touch create a new content channel?
Similar Posts
- The Changing Publishing Landscape - Introducing Wrox Blox
- The Evolving Experience Expectation of Customers
- Apple to Offer DRM-Free Music Via iTunes
- What Should an e-Book Be?
- And For Our Next Trick - Introducing Wrox’s ASP3Wiki
If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader. You can also sign up to receive updates via email using the form at the top of this page.
Comments
I am sooo sor–okay, I’m only sort of sorry. We really need to coordinate our brilliant posts. Thank you for the link and the comments. Usually when a man says I’ve ruined his day, it’s the husband who has discovered the latest cache of books after he’s cleared the piles around my desk!
You and Kassia are dead on. In my little know, little read corner of the world, I said as much a couple of months before iPhone even launched:
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatel/2007/04/the_ebook_devic.html
when I said the internet mobile phone is the perfect ebook platform. Whether it’s ipod touch or iphone, the theory is the same. of course Codding Horror Jeff also had a good point about even the brilliant NYT Reader application being “inferior to the web broswer”:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000944.html
BTW, I’d disagree with the storage being on the small side. Unless video or music is taking up 90% of the space, what’s left is more than enough for a huge pocket library of books. Go Colts!