E-Books Meet iPods

Will Apple’s next iPod help e-books reach the big time? There’s a real chance that it could, if industry speculation can be believed. It’s widely expected that the new iPod, whenever it comes out, will have a much larger screen than the current model—a screen big enough to display several paragraphs’ worth of text, perhaps. And now Engadget reports that at least one major publishing house is archiving all of its manuscripts and sending them over to Apple.