Apple's iPod has covered music and photos, maybe this could be its next move.

---------------- excerpt from a New York Times article on e-books ----------

 "The market's biggest hurdle right now may be that most people have
never even seen an e-book -- at least not one with a price tag. Yet more
people are reading more words from screens every day, which some would
argue is equivalent to reading a digital book. The popularity of Apple's
iTunes Web site for purchasing downloaded music indicates that ''people
are getting used to buying digital content without a physical copy,''
notes Theresa Horner, director of e-book operations and business
development at HarperCollins. Now consumers just need the equivalent of
an iPod for digital books, she says."

Read the whole article at:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/books/review/05GLAZERL.html?8bu>

Vlad James