Mobile e-books deserve to have their own name
Everybody involved in a wonderful world of digital books is witnessing currently a huge trend: e-books become mobile. And it’s not just another form of an electronic book. It’s the new generation, which doesn’t have most of disadvantages of a first gen e-book. This is leading to one thought:
Mobile e-books deserve to have their own name. I call them “mo-books”.
There are a couple of reasons for that:
E-book is a bad thing :. For many people, especially book lovers, computer e-book is a surrogate, side effect or a bastard baby of a paper book. They associate electronic books with inconvenient text documents, being read on a 800 x 600 screen – in most cases at work. The stereotypical meaning of an e-book is: a document you read at work for professional purposes, which is as boring as any other computer document, well, apart from the fact that somebody, some day called it “a book”. »»»
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This is a press release of my “Password Incorrect”, probably a first e-book designed for mobile reading.
[18.10.2008] – Nick Name’s “Password Incorrect” is a selection of short stories addressed especially for mobile users. The book was designed to be downloaded for free to iPhone, which among its many other features seems to be also a great e-book reader. Opposite to devices specifically designed for e-book reading, which still look inattractive and suffer early stage problems, iPhone with it’s large color screen, smooth interface and milions of users has the real power of rediscovering the pleasure of reading books – so that we could hear a louder „bye, bye” to paper.
The time for the reader’s change of mind is perfect. With Stanza application, which allows to read books in ePub format on iPhone/iPod and Feedbooks’s Online Catalog, a typical gadget-hunting, forward-looking consumer, who perceives reading paper books as an outdated way of spending time – can rediscover book reading – or reinvent it. »»»
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