I didn’t travel this week and experienced two firsts in books and documents.

I downloaded and google drive application this week and installed on my Macs and PCs this week.  I also purchased an iPhone app to edit google docs.  I now have gdocs editing on my Macs, PCs, and smart phone.  I dictated notes for this blog posts from my phone, a capability which should come to my OSX machine with the soon to be released Mountain Lion.  I don’t think the 4-way Apple/Google/MS/Amazon battle is about cloud storage, but the cost of MS Word or Apple Pages, and the ability to run those programs everywhere.  Free Google Docs might change this technology war.

The second Publishing event for me was turning on my Kindle and finding the new Kill Decision [Daniel Suarez] book there.  I had pre-ordered the book.  I never rushed to a bookstore for the latest anything. Until this week, books always seemed dated to me;  a paperback purchaser.