[LINK] The Amazon Kindle e-book
Jan Whitaker
jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Mon Jul 7 12:41:49 AEST 2008
At 12:31 PM 7/07/2008, Eric Scheid wrote:
>So .. what *are* the advantages of reading a book on the kindle vs reading
>it on paper?
Access. Immediate access. That of course assumes there is a kindle
version. Some readers want that book *now*! And waiting for an
overseas delivery, paying shipment charges, make an ebook option
quite attractive. However, if it's true the only way they will
transmit is over a specific wireless network, it won't make sense for
out of US access.
Reading, or the actual consuming of the ebook, is supported when
someone wants to have many books on the go and not haul around the
weight. School texts would be a prime benefit for these things, but
may not be a priority conversion format. I'm not even sure if Amazon
stocks textbooks. Still, some readers have multiple books on the go
at the same time, so there would be attraction in that storage of
multiples on an ebook device.
I would assume that a kindle also doesn't require external light to
read the page, but a paper book does. Remember the Marx quip about
inside a dog it's too dark to read. Not with a kindle??? They could
use that for marketing if true.
Jan
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