I used to have an independent rock label.

It was nothing serious. Just a teenage dream that I could achieve with my first savings from work and some money I earned playing with my band.

A parallel project, but we did release some cool stuff.

Good that I didn’t join some friends as a partner in another dream that I had: a music store.

Because both my label and their store closed some time after Apple developed the iTunes and make the iPod more popular.

Our passion, lack of time and planning couldn’t resist to the rise of the MP3s, the decline to the whole physical record as we knew it.

Now, Apple just killed another teenage dream that I had: having a bookstore after retiring.

It would place where I would stay reading some books, having my coffee and chatting with my friends and other book lovers. Altough my retirement is 30 years away, now I know: that’s not gonna happen.

Apple just released the iPad with the iBook. Some months before, Kindle put that dream in a coma.

Of course, I love the music more than the CDs (although I still miss the sleeves, the lyrics). And I love more the stories than the paper of the book itself (the art books, I guess, will still survive).

But it will make no sense to invest in a bookstore anymore.

The relationship between people and music, books, magazines, and other sources of creativity and entertainment has just changed forever.

So, please, Mr Steve Jobs, would you mind tell your next steps?

I promise that I won’t tell anyone.

Then I can change my plans in advance, without any disappointment or money loss.

Or should I invest all that I have in your company and start thinking about living by the beach in 30 years? There will be an iSurfboard? Come on, just a hint.

I am looking forward to receive your email in my Macbook, or iPhone or in my new iPad as soon as it arrives.

Thank you very much,

- Fabio Seidl

PS: Yes, I know that the people from Amazon.com are much more sad because of the born-dead Kindle.