[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Well, just like here, the e-book publishing discussion seems to have wound down over at Chronicles, too. One interesting note: One of the posters mentioned something we've talked about over here, that e-book reading may end up taking a back-seat to e-newspapers catching on first, and spreading e-readers amongst the general population faster than book reading.

Does anyone think the Sony Reader would be well-suited to daily newspaper reading? It is already set up for web connectivity, and it seems that it could easily be configured to download periodicals on a subscription basis.

They also discussed the issue of ferreting out the good stuff from all the material out there (their supposition being that most e-books are junk, something I never managed to convince them otherwise on). They see the traditional publishing industry as one that acts to separate the wheat from the chaff, so the reader doesn't have to. Personally, I find this logic flawed, but that's the general opinion.