Link: Dear Steve Jobs, iBooks has me Nervous

Dr. Dave Lankes has posted his thoughts about the new iPad application, iBooks. I am a bit surprised by the lack of writing about this happening in the library blog community. However, Dr. Lankes has some great points, and to whet your appetite, here is a quote from his original post, as well as a link taking you there:

What makes me nervous about iBooks, the new eBook app from Apple targeted for their iPad, is not what you might expect. DRM, cost models doesn’t worry me. These are mostly imposed by the publishers, and we saw how this played out in music and MP3’s. It is certainly not that eReaders or the move away from physical books in some way endangers the future of the library. Libraries are about knowledge and facilitation, not artifacts and stuff.
No, what worries me about iBooks is that it is so damn boring. I actually found myself angry and disappointed after the big iPad announcement. I expected so much more. I was a little apprehensive about posting these thoughts because I haven’t actually seen the iBooks software. So for all I know, everything I am about to say is there, but there just wasn’t enough time to talk about them. So if that is the case, Apple, my bad. If not, what were you thinking?!
Link: Dear Steve Jobs, iBooks has me Nervous, by Dr. Dave Lankes.