It's Here . . . Digitized Nonfiction

Zinio, which has been offering digital magazine subscriptions delivered to the iPhone, is now offering a series of about 90 cookbooks by Harvard Common Press. (The image here is a cover of one of Zinio's offerings.)

If you're keeping track of the digital publishing trend, this is big news and it's probably making the e-reader folks stand up and take notice. Sometimes you just want a book right now but your local store doesn't have it. Now you don't have to wait.

Are you strapped in yet?