Is this a trend yet? If not, it’s sure to be soon. After all, William Gibson is nothing if not harbinger of the future, right? The Neuromancer author has official given the thumbs up to Amazon’s popular eBook reader, writing on his Twitter account, “Actually, *touched* very first Kindle. Appealing unit, IMO.”
Gibson didn’t just like the unit, however, he signed the thing at a fan’s request–in fact, he signed four of them during an appearance yesterday on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond.
What do you think, could the man who coined the term “cyberspace” be leading another trend? I’m sure Gibson isn’t the first author to have done this, of course. It certainly offers an interesting work around to the inability to get author signatures in the front covers of eBooks.
It’s a bit like getting a team to sign a baseball. Get enough offers to sign the back of your device and the thing is probably better off behind glass. Judging from Gibson’s signature, the author didn’t really expect too many more signatures to join his on the back of this particular device.
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