The New Yorker on the iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books:

“Amazon has done a great job” with its Kindle. “We’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little bit farther.” It would probably have been more accurate to say that Jobs planned to stand on Amazon’s neck and press down hard, with publishers applauding.

I don’t believe the decision to enter publishing to be a reversal for Jobs (who had earlier said that ‘people don’t read anymore’) – to put things in context, the iBookstore’s going to be miniscule if compared to the app store. iBooks – while big for publishers – are merely a blip on Apple’s radar.