The Kindle is one of those disruptive technologies that might save the newspaper industry. How it might impact the book publishing world, the textbook publishing world, and the library world, well that remains to be seen. A statistic they provided in the article that I find telling is that of all books that are available in dual format on Amazon (Kindle and paper), 35% are sold as Kindle books. That is huge. They also noted that Kindle buyers are not gadget people and I remember listening to a NPR program not so long ago that shared the fact that the 30 and older set are big Kindle buyers, so it isn't just a young person's fad. I personally like the idea of being able to carry my library around in one small container, and as a student, I would love being able to carry all my textbooks that way! I wonder how this will impact distance education library services? E-reserves? Library collections? Current e-books available online are not easily read/used. Maybe Amazon will allow libraries to checkout and retrieve Kindle e-content? How will the standard library ILSs manage that little trick? Times are changing!
Read the article at:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/storysupplement/kindle/
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