e-Books from Soft Skull Press
Written by David on December 18th, 2008Via Mike Cane, New York’s heroic Soft Skull Press may soon be offering many (most? all?) of its books for the Kindle and Sony Reader, with an iPhone option lurking in the future. Damn right.
But do I want to live without those lickabley delicious cover designs? Maybe Soft Skull can put high-res pdfs of their covers online, and we can print them out and wrap them around the reader (or just throw them on the floor and roll around on top of them).
Update: Check out Soft Skull Publisher Richard Nash’s thought-provoking words re: the cover design issue in the Comments.
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You know, I’ve been ruminating on the cover issue. Which could also be called the what’s-that-cute-boy/girl-reading-on-the-subway syndrome that will impact eBooks.
One thing I’m planning on doing is offering skins in an assortment of designs including the Soft Skull logo, and some with covers on them. For the iPhone to start with, since that’s easiest. But, yeah, I agree it is a real issue.
I’ve always felt that the counterpart to the digital download book is working much harder to create gorgeous physical objects. A few year from now, doing eBooks will be the easy thing, and the hard thing will be finding the right format for the physical version, avoiding repetitiveness, gimmickry, cutesiness, preciousness, all those pitfalls…
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I like your skin idea, Richard. As you’re proving, there’s certainly an answer to that physicality issue out there somewhere. It will take some experimentation. Should be fun, actually. I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with.
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Hmmm…sexy iPhone skin makes me wish iPhone was BIGGER. Could a 17″ iPhone be in our future???
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Soft Skull Skins (doesn’t that have a nice alliterative ring to it) …collect them all!