Free excerpt of Steven Levy’s iPod book for reading on your iPod
If you own an iPod, you can use it to read a free excerpt of The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Steven Levy.
Nice going, Claire. What’s more, I’m delighted that Simon & Schuster is already selling the book in Adobe, Microsoft and Palm formats.
E-books should appear when or even before p-books do. What better way to take advantage of the initial burst of publicity, especially if you want to reach audiences overseas?
Meanwhile, S&S might also want to consider selling the entire Levy book for iPod reading, not just in the other formats.
October 31st, 2006 at 11:15 am
Thanks for noticing our efforts to make content available early and in as many creative ways as possible. Please note that this particular bit of genius is all the efforts of Christian Smythe, and not me. I just jumped up and down clapping my hands in glee as he does all the heavy lifting.
Claire
October 31st, 2006 at 11:29 am
Well, Claire, congrats to Christian on the iPod angle, then. Clap, clap! As for the rest, I’m cheering on publishers with the guts to experiment with new biz models, and your early release of e-books definitely falls within that category. This is newsworthy, given S&S’s size. I recall that HarperCollins is also doing interesting things with release dates.
I hope you’ll keep me informed of the results of such experiments–and will let me know if you do add the iPod format. Let’s hope this open-mindedness can help you reach new audiences. – David
Reminder: The TeleBlog wants publishers of all sizes to succeed. I’m also eager to hear from small publishers breaking out of the box.