Yep: the price point sure is attractive. I just received ths offer from Zinio that offered me three issues of Men’s Health for just $5! Right pricing, wrong target audience (by a long shot).

I recently spent about an hour with the latest version of Sony’s “The Reader” — a portable eBook device — and I must say that I was impressed. Many, many, years ago, I produced an eBook version of a special Fall issue Taddle Creek magazine and the readers were largely unusable. However, after twenty minutes with the new Sony device, I was almost ready to pull out my wallet.

Should the digital edition experience merge with somethink like these new portable readers — or other E Ink powered devices — then the days of curling up on the couch with a digital edition may finally be a reality.

Phillip.