Amazon Kindle

I was following the live blog updates as Jeff Bezos was introducing Amazon Kindle.  There was a lot of mixed reactions afterwards from people who write about the technology, and for the most part I have to say they did not welcome Kindle.

I did not get a chance to write (and then there was the thanksgiving holidays, which I'm enjoying very much by the way) but I have to say I'm very positive about Kindle.  My initial reaction was that with Amazon's force behind it, this is going to be a revolution in the book industry.  This is an industry that has not changed much in decades.  I do not know much about the history of printing, but as far as I remember books have been books.  We have "better quality" prints now, but that's pretty much it.

Amazon spent 10 years to make e-commerce mainstream, and I think it will do the same to make e-books a reality.  It looks like at least a Newsweek editor agrees with me.