I got an iPhone today. My luck in waiting only 10 minutes to get a phone is completely due to suckers like Matt who waited all day yesterday with a broken service system to get theirs, taking hours and hours to activate a single phone, leaving the Fido flagship no choice but to close yesterday with about a dozen phones left over.
The guilt eats at me.
It really does.
I went back and forth on getting this phone for a long time. What finally broke it for me was that I was truly disappointed that I didn’t have any way to Twitter throughout BookExpo while running around like a maniac. So this is my plan with my little phone. To Twitter and liveblog all the book events I attend, and maybe someday, to move this twittering from my personal account to the account of whichever publisher I’m working for at the time.
Also, unbeknownst to me, the iPhone has an amazing eReader application and public domain books are only 0.99. My dream of reading books from this phone is so much closer than I ever knew! Hopefully publishers will get on board with this format and make their books available to iPhone and iPod Touch users.
Any suggestions for making this machine as publishing-friendly as possible?!
Ah congrats on the new aquisition
Fictionwise’s eReader is not bad for being the first iPhone app for books.
I think it’s better to twitter for yourself rather than as part of the publisher — there are ways to incorporate your own tweets to multiple twitter accounts.
I use an iPod Touch so I’ll be relying on WiFi for the ability to tweet or liveblog anything
I am however looking forward to the new WordPress App that is coming out. I hope it will allow me to save drafts without WiFi connections!
I want a WordPress app too–I’m sure there’s one in the works! I hope so anyway!!
You’re probably right about twitter, but I’m still confident there’s a way publishers/businesses in general could use it that would be effective…it definitely be more news/events based than anything.
I did run into Ellen at BEC, she came by the KWAC booth and we chatted for a bit.
I think region based blogs is a great idea, but I’d be worried about the transition. Based on how our new printer/photocopier is going over in the office, blogging is definitely something that needs to be eased into!!!
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