Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday November 17, 2007 @11:12PM from the only-if-it-ever-gets-released dept.

theodp writes "With a seven-page cover story on The Future of Reading, Newsweek confirms all those rumors of Amazon's imminent introduction an affordable ebook. Kindle, which is named to evoke the crackling ignition of knowledge, has the dimensions of a paperback, weighs 10.3 oz., and uses E Ink technology on a 6-inch screen powered by a battery that gets up to 30 hours from a 2-hour charge. Kindle's real breakthrough is its EVDO-like wireless connectivity, which allows it to work anywhere, not just at Wi-Fi hotspots. More than 88,000 titles will be on sale at the Kindle store at launch, with NYT best sellers priced at $9.99."

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I predict by m2943 · 2007-11-18 01:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I'm sure Amazon will revolutionize online reading... with a bunch of patents: a patent to use buttons to flip the pages on an E-book, a patent on formatting textual content for display in a window, a patent on using black and white pixels for displaying text, a patent on storing books in files, a patent on using data compression for reducing the amount of storage required for storing an e-book.