As a preface to a theoretical longer installment in my ongoing internal debate about e-reader software*, I’d like to offer up two links to articles on Scroll Motion, a company working on translating books to the iPhone. One comes from Publishers Weekly; the other, Maud Newton. My gut feeling — contrary to Gregory Cowles’s thoughts on the Kindle — is that reading books electronically will eventually take place far more on iPhones and Blackberrys than on dedicated e-reading devices, and what Scroll Motion is doing, and the fact that they seem to have a good blend of the technological and the literary, has my interest piqued. (At least as piqued as a non-iPhone-owner whose preferred format is the trade paperback can be.
*-yes, I am being intentionally long-winded here.