"The current surface forms for digital books are far from perfect, but they work and are getting better with each device and software iteration. So, in my opinion, many of the critical future questions digital books designers will have to address don’t directly involve pure content layout. Future-book design is not merely about font sizes and leading. Instead, our hardest (and possibly most rewarding) problems will involve the intermingling of content and data."

Brilliance, really well thought out piece.

Craig Mod talks about how book design can adapt to a digital age.

"Many of these metrics are accessibility related. It's scary that most of the highly-praised ereaders (such as Wired / New Yorker / Time magazine's apps) eliminate the inherent accessibility of digital text. Of course, this is a transition period, but why not start off on the right foot? Digital text isn't the same artifact that printed text is. Let's not treat it like it is."

One of the many reasons why we need free, publicly linkable books online. The example from Kottke.org is a illustrative as well.

A solid deconstruction of some of the driving differences between reading on an iPad/iPhone and your computer's LCD display.