So, I didn't even realize I was looking for the iPod of ebooks but after posts like this and this, I kinda have to come clean with myself and accept that I kinda am looking for that super slick ebook reader that is going to capture everyone's heart and do to ebooks what the ipod did to mp3 files.
Turns out, I may have been going about it wrong.
I was looking at devices like the Cool-ER reader and Sony's would-be kindle thwacker. But maybe the iPod of ebooks... isn't an ebook reader at all!
TechCrunch has this post about a recent interview with Steve Jobs, "What Steve Jobs Actually Said About Ebooks," and the man has - yet again - forced me to twist my mind into a new shape. It's a good feeling. From the interview:
Q: Has your opinion of e-readers changed?A: I’m sure there will always be dedicated devices, and they may have a few advantages in doing just one thing. But I think the general-purpose devices will win the day because I think people just probably aren’t willing to pay for a dedicated device.
If you recall, Jobs has famously poo-pooed the idea of creating an Apple reader device in the past - causing much speculation that Apple was secretly working on just such a device.
But with this new information one might conclude that Apple isn't really working on a dedicated e-reader at all. Perhaps they are working to make the devices that they are already building serve as awesom e-readers.
I kinda hope so, actually. Because that would mean my search is over. The iPod of ebooks just may be... an iPod!
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