… will be the Next Big Thing, which principle underlies Nick Carr’s post, but I’m not fully convinced.
While handhelds may be the Next Big Thing, they’ll be a transitory Big Thing, I suspect.
I tend to think of handheld devices — whether iPhone, BlackBerry, or Kindles — as intermediary devices, things which suffice for now, [...]

Kudos to Peter Brantley for getting the Publishing Frontier blog moving. It’s taken a fair amount of preparatory discussion, but I think the need is real and the timing is right.

This blog took a somewhat circuitous path toward conception. In March of 2006, with the assistance of Tim O’Reilly, the Digital Library Federation, and the Coalition of Networked Information, and with support from Google, Adobe, and the Mellon Foundation, I organized a small conference called “Reading 2.0” which brought together a small group of [...]