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I read all my e-books on a 320x240 PDA screen, with no problems. I can read on it all day long (or at least as long as I can read paper before my eyes get tired). It's easy!
I notice Mossberg's article seems to criticize pre-Kindle e-books for PDAs and smartphones as being limited in current titles, as opposed to classics and older titles. I don't see a lack of "current" titles at all, just a noticeable lag before the big bestsellers arrive on e-book formats... pretty much like paperbacks.
Then, in describing these new iPhone services, he specifies that out of an available 200,000 books, only 50,000 are available as e-books (the rest are print), and only 30,000 of those are current titles. But he doesn't criticize this fact. If it wasn't good enough before iPhones... why is it good enough now?
As opposed to coming up with more new apps (and formats) to read e-books, more work should be put into adapting more of the existing formats (Mobi, ahoy) to iPhones. Seeing new additions to the format wars is only disappointing.
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