Jul

Sheet Music Comes to The Kindle

kindle muse beeth oven 284x300 Sheet Music Comes to The Kindle Amazon’s Kindle now does sheet music. It seems like the perfect match, especially if you choose to read it from the oversized Kindle DX.

The music, which can be bought in the Kindle Store, comes from Novato Music Press catalog of over 20,000 titles, including 650 from Dave Beeth-Oven himself. The books are cheap, too, starting at less than $3 — a clear win for non-paper, non-posted goods.

Of course the Kindle version of sheet music has the same problem as that of the dead-tree version: how to turn the pages while playing? We’re sure it would be easy enough to rig up a foot pedal, but the more traditional method of hiring a hot young boy or girl to flip the pages of the book for you isn’t quite so glamorous when applied to pushbutton plastic and e-ink.

Musicians, go check it out. Even if it is called, lamely, “Kindle the Muse”, at least you’ll have one less pile of stuff to carry to the gig.

Product page [Amazon]