[LINK] The Amazon Kindle e-book

[Jan Whitaker]

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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