Publishing: All247News accuses the iPad of causing the Que’s demise. It looked like a great ereader, but I think blaiming the iPad for its demise is going a little too far. I think it’s $649 price compared with the Kindle’s $139  is what killed it. eReaders aren’t multi-use devices, and as such can’t command muti-use prices. A good MP3 player costs about £40 now (you know, the kind that can technically play video but you’re never going to bother try it out), and at some point eReaders are going to have to come down to the same level. Not soon – it took MP3 players, what, about 8 years? – but s long as they’re over $100 or £70 they’re going to remain a luxury electronic good.

Interest-Piquing: Will ebooks eat the world? Is the printed book on the path to destruction? Has anyone in the industry noticed how physical forms of digital media haven’t disappeared in other industries, like film and music? No? Sorry, but the argument’s drive me up the wall sometimes ^_^ I don’t think printed books will disappear, but I think it’s going to be a toss up whether it’s the ‘collector’s item’ hardbacks survive or the ‘cheap and disposable’ paperbacks. People will still want a physical medium, but are they going to go for vinyl records or CDs?

I’m not the only one bored with the whole mobius strip aspect of the discussion: consider the ebook article drinking game.

InsPiring: Oh god, I thought this only happened in urban legends: a pea plant grows in a man’s lung. Funnily enough, it’s not on snopes yet.

Procrastination: What, Snopes wasn’t enough for you? Okay, how about Punch n Pie, and it’s forerunner, Queen of Wands.