Books(in140) & Other Things » iphone http://www.erinbalser.com Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:39:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 iPhone and Publishing http://www.erinbalser.com/2008/07/12/iphone-and-publishing/ http://www.erinbalser.com/2008/07/12/iphone-and-publishing/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:39:05 +0000 Erin http://www.erinbalser.com/2008/07/12/iphone-and-publishing/ Continue reading →]]> 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?!

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