When I was sixteen I was fortunate enough to intern at Sony Music USA in  TV & Radio Production. This was in the early 90s. And there was rumor of a coming revolution in the world of music. A lot of Sony mentors would mention “digital recordings” to the interns and young assistants, telling us of a day when our disc man would be a relic and CDs would become coffee coasters. We couldn’t believe it. Carrying around our entire music library in our pocket sounded like the stuff of fairy tales. Now I can barely remember life before the ipod, and it really wasn’t that long ago.

Now we are in the midst of a literary revolution. Kindle 2 has arrived and is looking to clear your bookshelves the way the ipod made your cd racks obsolete. But that is the question everyone is asking. Will electronic readers, like Kindle 2 and the Sony Reader, destroy or save publishing? One way or another it has and will continue to change the way publishers, book vendors and book buyers think about books. The debate is on, take a look at a recent article in Slate.

http://www.slate.com/id/2212320/

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