26 November 2007
Amazon has revealed a new device that it hopes will rival the book.
The digital reader, known as the ‘Kindle’, was launched in America yesterday. The device offers access to about 90,000 books and 11 daily newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Customers will also be able download best-selling books, classics and single copies of leading newspapers.
Laura Porco, Amazon’s director of digital text said:
We want to make sure everything anyone wants to read is on the Kindle...We won’t stop until we can offer millions of books.
The ‘Kindle’ is about the size of a standard paperback and weighs 290g. It can download a book wirelessly in under a minute and store up to 200 volumes to be read on its “electronic ink” screen.
Amazon hope the ‘Kindle’ will do for literature what the iPod has done for music.
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