[Web4lib] Amazon's Kindle e-book reader

[Howard Rosenbaum]

And a view from the business school

Getting a Read on Amazon's New Kindle
Published: November 28, 2007 in Knowledge at Wharton

On November 19, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos announced the launch
of an e-book device called Kindle. It weighs 10.3 ounces, costs $399 and
can download books in less than 60 seconds. He acknowledged upfront
that the e-book landscape is crowded with other efforts, most of them
unsuccessful, but Bezos thinks that he has a winner....

We asked marketing professor Peter Fader, Don Huesman, senior
director of information technology and management professor Dan
Raff to give us their reviews of Kindle. In the interest of full  
disclosure,
we would like to note that Knowledge at Wharton's content is available
on Kindle.......

Full story:
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1851

Howard Rosenbaum
SLIS at IU

On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:07 AM, B.G. Sloan wrote:

>
>   Interesting item buried in this piece:
>
>   "I found it very interesting that I would be able to get a  
> chapter of virtually any book that Amazon currently provides,  
> available in my hands now, at no charge, for sampling."
>
>   I hadn't heard of the "free sample chapter" thing before...
>
>   Also a little bit on the impact on libraries (don't know that I  
> agree):
>
>   "If I were the manager of a local public library system, I would  
> read these articles about the Kindle device with some alarm,  
> because part of what this device will mean is that people don't  
> have to wait in the queue to get the book from the library, if that  
> was how they're going to read it "
>
>   Full text of article:
>
>   http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1851
>
>   Bernie Sloan
>
>
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