Verizon to Help Kindle Rivals?

Looks like Verizon plans to offer wireless access to a whole slew of ebook readers. This is wonderful news as it means more competition and therefore more innovation is about to enter the eReader market. A few things I would love to see come from this:

1. All eBook readers come with wireless access.
2. Amazon eventually begins to offer their selection of digital books for sale to any eBook reader (or computer). (I think Amazon does better as a content provider rather than a hardware designer, but they may be quickly coming up to speed in the latter.)
3. Kindle-like wireless purchasing available on all notebooks and netbooks -- possibly expanding to music and video downloads as well over time. (Video may be a long time coming due to much higher bandwidth requirements.)
4. Additional no-fee wireless capabilities -- such as e-mail, Wikipedia, Google, etc. available on eBook readers. Much of this is already available on the Kindle.
5. Apple is rumored to be making a giant iPod Touch. It would be great to see this device become reality with large battery life and the capability to purchase a slew of eBook material and new applications from Apple's App Store using this technology.
6. Google's efforts to digitize every book in print will hopefully lead to integration with eBook readers. I would love to see a subscription service that lets you access an unlimited number of books via a computer and/or eBook reader. The literary equivalent of Rhapsody.
   

One thing is for sure -- this development should lead to some very good things for consumers -- with both new technology and new business models taking advantage of it. I can't wait to see what is next!