I don’t know about you, but I’m incredibly excited for the Apple press conference today that will unveil the new Apple tablet, unicorn, iSlate, etc. Whatever it will actually be called, I really want one.
But more than that, I want to hear what Steve Jobs is planning for the publishing industry as a whole. As Apple did with revolutionizing the music industry with the release of iTunes, some are predicting they will do the same for publishing using a variation of the iTunes format for books.
You can read more about the predictions in this Wired article. Plus they have a link to the press conference where you can watch it live at 10 a.m. Pacific time.
This may seem like something only publishing insiders would care about, but every author should be aware of how their content is being published. If this is as exciting as I think it will be, it will dramatically affect how we think of books in the future.
Yes, there will still be physical books. That will never change. But the possibilities for getting your book out before a new and fresh audience are enormous.
I don’t know about you, but I will be waiting in restless anticipation to know what the future holds.
January 27th, 2010 at 7:50 am
I’m excited, too! And if they call it a Unicorn, I will be first in line to buy one. ;-)