Another Scottish publisher trailing a blaze

I think Canongate have cracked the e-book race with their web app. Yet it doesn't seem to have caused many ripples in the publishing pond.

While other publishers witter on about the right e-book reader and the right price for e-books, Canongate have produced something that should be the envy of all. We all know iPhoners are obsessed with their phones. Now they can spend even more time loving them as an iReader.

And while we are at it, look how it took a forward-thinking Edinburgh-based publisher to just go on and do it. A publishing house that is run by someone who obviously embraces e-publishing and is providing the consumer with a product that will work on a gadget they already own and at a price that will have them flocking to the app store.

London publishers, eat your hearts out.