Mathias Döpfner shares his excitement for the iPad with Charlie Rose

Browsing Hulu for a bedtime video, I stumbled upon Charlie Rose's interview of Mathias Döpfner and was smitten by his optimism not only about the publishing business but also about how he sees the US as a leader and guardian of freedom and democracy... I certainly can appreciate that and this positivity reminds me of Sarkozy's address to the US Congress a couple of years ago.

On a different note:

Dear Charlie Rose,
I would love to share your invaluable content with all my friends. Yet can you please find a different/additional way to distribute your show? Due to Hulu's geographic restrictions, this is what most people  outside the US see (and I am sure many fans of yours):

Amazon's 420,000+ books available via its new Blackberry Kindle App

Before stumbling Wireless Week's news regarding the launch of the 'Kindle for Blackberry', I had lunch (actually it was more of a brunch) with a friend who was reading Les Echos on his Kindle. And among other things we talked about how the iPad's arrival would definitely pause as a game changer for Amazon's eReader and might be the catalyst to Amazon venturing onto other handsets. It turns out we were wrong (yes I admit) as Amazon probably thought of providing an ubiquitous experience long ago since its ebooks are already available via all the following platforms iPhone, iPod Touch, PC and Mac. Getting on the iPad seems to be Amazon's next step on sealing a very incesteous relationship with Apple...