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This week Bezos is releasing the Amazon Kindle, an electronic device that he hopes will leapfrog over previous attempts at e-readers and become the turning point in a transformation toward Book 2.0. That’s shorthand for a revolution (already in progress) that will change the way readers read, writers write and publishers publish. The Kindle represents a milestone in a time of transition, when a challenged publishing industry is competing with television, Guitar Hero and time burned on the BlackBerry; literary critics are bemoaning a possible demise of print culture, and Norman Mailer’s recent death underlined the dearth of novelists who cast giant shadows. On the other hand, there are vibrant pockets of book lovers on the Internet who are waiting for a chance to refurbish the dusty halls of literacy.
Thoughts? Opinions? What does this mean for libraries?
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I didn’t catch a price for the Kindle, but really, if I have to carry around another gadget, I want it to take the place of my pda,too.
Huge possibilities in the world of textbooks. We’d see a lot less kids walking around hunchbacked under their backpacks. On the negative side, lose the reader and you’ve lost all your textbooks…
Comment by Sue November 25, 2007 @ 4:15 am