The growing popularity of electronic books could offer hope for newspapers.
Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader, an embedded system for reading electronic books (e-books), launched in the United States by prominent online bookseller Amazon.com in November 2007. The Kindle was developed by Amazon's Lab126. It uses an electronic paper display and downloads content over Amazon Whispernet using the Sprint EVDO network. The Kindle can be used without a computer, and Whispernet is accessible without any fee. It also provides free internet access to Wikipedia.
On Monday, February 9, 2009, Amazon announced the Kindle 2, which became available for purchase on February 23, 2009. Price of the unit is $359.00. The new Kindle features improved battery life, 20 percent faster page-refreshing, a text-to-speech option to read the text aloud, and overall thickness reduced from 0.8 to 0.36 inches (9.1 millimetres). The available memory is limited to 1.4 Gigabytes, which Amazon estimates will hold about 1500 books. Unlike the original Kindle, Kindle 2 does not feature a slot for SD memory cards. To promote the new Kindle, author Stephen King has written a novella called UR, which is available exclusively as a Kindle download.
According to an early review by website iFixIt, the new Kindle features a Freescale 532 MHz, ARM-11 90nm processor, 2GB moviNAND main memory, and 3.7 V 1530 mAh lithium polymer battery.
According to an early review by website iFixIt, the new Kindle features a Freescale 532 MHz, ARM-11 90nm processor, 2GB moviNAND main memory, and 3.7 V 1530 mAh lithium polymer battery.
Overall I feel the Kindle has a strong grasp on e-book technology. There will always be room for improvement but for now I think Amazon is on the right track - It's one of the most impressive and useful pieces of technology to come about in the last few years.
The portability of this device - the fact that you are able to read books and more - anytime, anywhere - and the fact that you can download reading matrials anytime via it's Wi-Fi connection are unparalleled.
The Kindle won’t be for everyone (obviously), but the people who make the purchase - expecially if they are avid readers - should definitely get their money's worth.
The portability of this device - the fact that you are able to read books and more - anytime, anywhere - and the fact that you can download reading matrials anytime via it's Wi-Fi connection are unparalleled.
The Kindle won’t be for everyone (obviously), but the people who make the purchase - expecially if they are avid readers - should definitely get their money's worth.
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