At the launch of the Kindle’s attention focused on one question: is the e-book reader iPod for books? But actually, that question is irrelevant. The Kindle is a new step towards acceptance of electronic reading as an alternative to reading paper.
And then there was the long awaited Amazon Kindle. After years of rumors was on 19 November 19 by 13.5-inch e-book reader in the virtual store. For $ 399 anyone could purchase the device. The batteries last thirty hours. The reader can buy 88,000 books for $ 9.99 or less and take subscriptions to newspapers, magazines and blogs. He can buy books from Amazon wireless and save up to 200 titles. And much more: Amazon stores all purchases automatically and you can send to the Kindle for 10 cents own documents
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was everywhere to read this information. No new medium or paid attention to the festive launch of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Also in the Netherlands. Precisely because of this feeling that Amazon hoped to create: the Kindle for books what the iPod for music has been. The following press release from Amazon underlined that: after two days was the Kindle temporarily sold out – though the company has not said how many copies in the first stock was
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Not everyone sees the Kindle as a major breakthrough in the hundreds of user tests on the Internet are reflected, skepticism prevails. In many cases, the latest e-book reader put down as just another device that you can take – or not. “If we look back at the launch, the Kindle a platform that reading has changed, but the first product after the phone that uses the [high-speed data network] EV-DO,” writes Michael Cader of the U.S. site Publishers Marketplace laconically.
Ugly
The Kindle has some disadvantages. The device is ugly, everyone finds. Unlike the iPod, no one will want to be seen. The Kindle He is expensive: the device and the content. The Kindle is $ 100 more expensive than the Sony Reader and especially the popular mass market paperbacks often cost $ 7.99, while newspapers, magazines and blogs on its Internet free consultation. And ordinary reading experience does not give the 283-gram Kindle: because scrolling is not possible, the user must often load a new page. The customers on Amazon’s website are only moderately enthusiastic.
Device
So the iPod moment for books? No. That is not yet come. But does that matter? Maybe never. Comes that moment Same Cader wrote: ‘Music and television have always had a device in order to be enjoyed, books always had a built-in “device”.’ In other words, the step to explain to read a book, hundreds of dollars down for too many readers too large
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The Kindle is then simply a new step in the process to make reading paper an alternative electronic reading – for those in need would have to. The Kindle has after all plus points compared to predecessors. Thus, the wireless ordering new books widely praised, as well as the keyboard and easy search function that the Sony Reader has not.
Worldwide
not forget that Amazon is not the only one. Numerous parties play their part in the acceptance of electronic reading. As in the Netherlands Selexyz has started selling the iLiad, starts in Australia this year leading Dymocks selling an e-book reader. Sony launched last month a new version of its own Reader: slightly smaller, easier navigation and better electronic paper. Located in France since December 5, the new version of the Cybook in the store.
In this way, electronically read perfectly well off the ground – or kindle a resounding success or not
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