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“Kindle” of Amazon
Here is the announcement: Amazon is inroducing the new E-book service: “Kindle”
The “Newsweek” published an interview with Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos.
Below are the exerpts from the interview:
“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… wireless connectivity, via a system called Whispernet. (It’s based on the EVDO broadband service offered by cell-phone carriers, allowing it to work anywhere, not just Wi-Fi hotspots.)…Therefore the Kindle (named to evoke the crackling ignition of knowledge) has the dimensions of a paperback, with a tapering of its width that emulates the bulge toward a book’s binding. It weighs but 10.3 ounces,…mimes the clarity of a printed book, the Kindle’s six-inch screen posts readable pages. The battery has to last for a while,…Amazon prices Kindle editions of New York Times best sellers and new releases in hardback at $9.99…The first chapter of almost any book is available as a free sample…The Kindle is not just for books. Via the Amazon store, you can subscribe to newspapers (the Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Le Monde) and magazines (The Atlantic). When issues go to press, the virtual publications are automatically beamed into your Kindle… In addition, the Kindle can venture out on the Web itself—to look up things in Wikipedia, search via Google or follow links from blogs and other Web pages… The Kindle, shipping as you read this, costs $399″.
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