Other e-book opinions (and David Mitchell)

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

I rather enjoy reading opinions on e-books and e-readers from other people, mainly because a) they’re often much cleverer than I, and b) they’re in countries where these devices are actually available (on that note see Lance Wigg’s post this morning about the continuing lack of Kindle availability in NZ).

On that note then this is a great down-to-earth article from Publishing Perspectives about the practical issues of reading e-books. Digital publishing design seems to have a long way to go – at least from the point of view of the big publishing houses. They had better start listening. The potential to make digital books objects of beauty has to be huge and could be the deal-breaker for many readers (yours truly included).

Speaking of objects of beauty the cover for the new David Mitchell title, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, has been released… historical Japanese plot… David Mitchell… oh my….