Most Important Post 3: Things To Come

To illustrate just how fast things are moving, one of “the things to come” I had planned to write about in the post CAME TODAY!  Amazon announced an application for the iPhone that will allow one to read a Kindle book on an iPhone or iPod Touch.  Not only that.  Now one can keep the same book on both a Kindle and an iPhone, while a bookmarking feature allows a reader to resume where one left off, no matter which device one’s using.  The Amazon folks see the iPhone app being using for short spurts of reading — while waiting in lines, for example — rather than for long stints, which are more conveniently done on the Kindle.

You can get more information at the New York Times website.  Indicating the popular interest in this new facility, this article is the 8th most emailed story of the day.

There is even speculation that Apple may itself come out with a larger sized iPod Touch, which will make reading even easier.

Also underscoring rising consumer interest in the Kindle, papers yesterday carried a story indicating that Stephen King’s new novella UR, released only for the Kindle three weeks ago as part of Amazon’s promotion of the new Kindle 2, already has sales in the 5 figures.

But there’s still more in the pipeline.

Plastic Logic unveiled its 8 1/2 x 11 inch e-Reader last September, with indications that the product will hit the stores sometime in 2009.  This is the Reader I’m personally waiting for.  It will also be ideal for magazines and newspapers, as well as trade books with illustrations.  I have collected two video demos in VIDEO FOR WRITERS, one in low-resolution that streams conveniently, the other in high-definition by the Plastic Logic CEO.  Both will be available in the sidebar for a few days.

Some critics of e-Books claim that they will not be satisfied until readers with full-color capability come along.  That’s in the pipeline too.  Just look at the demo video of the Sony Full-Color Paper, also in the sidebar and at VIDEO FOR WRITERS.

As more readers turn to e-Books, as they certainly will, writers will surely benefit.  Wny?  Because getting one’s work into e-Book format is becoming much easier — and at little or no cost.  I’ll discuss this further later this week.

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