Joe Wikert, creator of the Kindle-obsessed Kindleville Blog, has a confession to make:

My enthusiasm for the Kindle has dramatically shifted to the iPhone. There. I said it. It feels good to come clean. [snip]  I was a skeptic till I got an iPhone a couple of months ago. Even though the book selection is very limited in the AppStore, I’d be hard-pressed to buy a Kindle now that I have an iPhone. In fact, I had been planning to buy the next generation Kindle that’s rumored to appear next year but I doubt I will now.  I still don’t agree with Steve Jobs and his comment that “people don’t read anymore.” But wouldn’t it be ironic if his platform turned out to be the winner in the e-content battle?

Indeed.

This is kind of like Hugh Hefner suddenly realizing that he prefers flat-chested PhD candidates to implant and collagen-swollen bimbos.

I wonder about the effects on reading, and therefore writing, if iPhone-sized devices become the most commonly used e-book readers (and e-books come to be the dominant book form, as I expect they will).  Will “books” be much shorter?  Will paragraphs be shorter?  Will the structure change?  I don’t know the answer, but it will be interesting to see what happens.

Ladies (and gentlemen?), wondering how you might take advantage of all that wonderful, snowy downtime between Christmas and New Year’s?

SB Sarah at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books has your answer:  Harlequin, of the recession-proof romance publishing industry, is offering four free mini-romances for the iPhone’s Stanza ebook reader from now until January 1.

Now romance will never be more than a tap, swipe and un-pinch away…