Autographed e-books? There will soon be an app for that

[The Straight Story]

Autographed e-books? There will soon be an app for that

With the news that e-books are now the top format for reading as of February 2011, comes a problem for some. How do you get an autographed copy of an e-book?

Some have resorted to having their Kindle or iPad case signed, but that's hardly ideal. A better solution is coming, however. It's called Autography, and it's a iOS app.

Here's how it works, basically. A reader poses with an author for a photograph, which can be taken with an iPad 2's camera or an external digital camera. The image then appears on the author’s iPad or is otherwise transmitted to the iPad if using an external camera.

The author would then use a stylus to write (most would call this scrawl, based on the way writing of this type ends up looking like) a message beneath the photo. When finished, the author sends the fan an e-mail with a link to the image, which can then be downloaded into the e-book.

http://www.examiner.com/technology-in-national/autographed-e-books-there-will-soon-be-an-app-for-that

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. And when the ebook is deleted remotely does the autograph vaporize, too?

Ebooks aren't going away of course but I suspect the autograph concept has a lot more evolution ahead of it.