This morning, many of the blogs I read echo the Amazon news about its new eBook Reader (e.g., R/Wweb). The Kindle offers e-ink technology (high quality display with low power consumption) and wireless (think cellphone and not wifi hotspot) Internet connectivity. The price point for popular books (from Amazon) is supposed to be $10. The cost for the device will initially be $400. Somebody is going to find a way to offer text/image content at a reasonable price point in a way that provides adequate compensation to authors. We all probably have features we would like to see in such a device – high on my priority list is the opportunity to highlight and annotate. There was no mention of these capabilities in the posts I read.
I will have to wait until I have an opportunity to try this technology, but it does sound promising.
P.S. – It is intriguing that my two posts for today comment on a new way to read books and the decline in reading proficiency among adolescents.
