I do some editing and copywriting for a computer-book publisher, Pragmatic Bookshelf, but I was pleasantly surprised when its magazine editor, Michael Swaine, asked me to comment on the iPad for PragPub magazine, just a day after Steve Jobs’ announcement.

Click here to visit the PragPub Web page, where you can download Issue 8 in PDF, epub, or mobi.

“This is an Age-of-Aquarius moment for publishing,” I say. “Authors will have more freedom (and some expectations) to realize those multimedia dreams of the 90s.”

Catch this and a few other pithy remarks from me—along with some eye-opening comments from the luminaries assembled for the roundtable.

Whether or not you want to read, write, or publish an e-book, the medium will become more and more important.  We all should watch for ways to distribute information (internally and externally) with e-books.

Inspired by a question on LinkedIn – and the recent/ongoing BEA and Internetweek activities – I posted a rough matrix of e-book formats and devices, hoping folks will help me build it.

I also want to keep track of which e-book retailers sell which formats – and to help visualize which platforms are most versatile. A format war will surely heat up in the next few years.

See http://wordsupply.com/blog/ebookmatrix.html.

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