OK, now that I got that out of my system, here is my whack at it.
I have been very happy with the ideas that have been thrown around. My frame of reference is that I like ebooks, and any new form of communication. What fascinates me most is the idea that publishers may have less roll in our literature than the writers soon
Artistically I too am more of a minimalist... and I think that the idea put forward by Steve Jordan was incredible. It had a great use of negative space, which I love, but understand that most people's eye are adverse to. I have tried to keep his theme, while removing even more of the dateable pieces of the reader. I imagine eventually all e-books will have 1-2 buttons that are barely visitable and use a touch screen to do almost everything, but most likely they will continue to be about book size, and have a screen... so thats about all I left.
I have tried to include a few minor variations, one is completely transparent, and I have added lines in one it imply text. I also also attached my original psd file so others can further edit the idea!