Jun 2nd, 2008 by gibsondirect
Check this out:
THE WASHINGTON POST
“PUBLISHER OFFERS 5,000 MORE BOOKS FOR KINDLE. Amazon.com said Friday that publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. will make 5,000 more books available for the Amazon Kindle wireless reader, bumping to 125,000 the number of titles users can download and read. Later in the day, Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos appeared at the BookExpo America convention in Los Angeles and touted the benefits of electronic book offerings. He said Amazon had temporarily sold out of hard copies of “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” the new tell-all book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan. Bezos has said Kindle e-books now account for 6% of sales among the 125,000 titles available on the site in both electronic and print formats. The company did not elaborate on that figure.”
The new Kindle reader is drawing a lot of attention. While I love new technology, I’m not sure I will adapt well to a Kindle reader. But it makes me wonder where we will be ten years from now. Will a hardcover book have such a low demand that retail prices will go through the roof?
Who will use such a reader? It may end up being a generation thing. Kids in grade school today will be the Kindle readers of tomorrow? My college age kids may adapt to Kindle better than I will. Who knows?
What think ye?
I think many book lovers like to have the actual book on display. A collection of books on a shelf reveals something about the person collecting them.
A Kindle may contain the same titles but nobody but the reader gets to see the collection.