Digital book content coming to 3DS/Wii U

This is a cool rumor! View/download books, magazines, newspapers, comics, etc to your 3DS and Wii U! Apparently Nintendo will also bring instruction manuals, players guides and Nintendo Power (past and present) to the service also. If this rumor is true could this spell the end of instruction manuals packed in with retail games and Nintendo Power on newsstands? I'd hate to see that happen.

Still I hope this is true. I think it would work especially well with the tablet-like Wii U controller.

Cool idea, especially with old Players Guides being used on the Wii U controller while you play a VC game on the TV. Even today instruction manuals are being phased out. I've noticed with Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 Nintendo included a digital manual but no actual manual, just a quick start sheet of paper. Looks like they will be doing that with all first party releases too. Might make it hard to sell on eBay to people who don't know they never made a manual to begin with and that's why you don't have one.

Hahaha! Yeah. Selling on eBay will require the seller to mention that the quick start sheet IS the instruction manual. Very cool idea and I hope they add even more non gaming stuff around the gaming to make the 3DS and Wii U look like the ultimate package.