Reading Steve Jobs

From the New York Times
So despite all the criticism Mr. Jobs has taken for impugning American literacy, maybe he actually believes he can do for reading what he for listening to music? And despite the mixed reports on the success of the Kindle to date — there are reports that it has sold out, but the word from the publishing world is murkier — Mr. Jobs has to have taken note that the Kindle’s real genius was in borrowing a page from the iPod-iTunes business-model playbook.

What would the reaction be to something about the same size and less than the thickness of the Macbook Air? Without a doubt the Apple industrial design department could do a better job than Amazon in conceptualizing a digital book.

Certainly stranger things have happened. Wouldn’t it be ironic if Mr. Jobs could ultimately claim to have saved reading books in the digital age?

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