Photos: Amazon enters the e-book world

Kindle stokes the fire...

By Caroline McCarthy, 23 November 2007 12:51

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled the company's e-book reader, the Kindle - the latest entry into the long unspectacular market for electronic handheld devices for reading material ranging from novels to newspapers.

Photo credit: Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com

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  1. 1. Richard

    And a talking version, for those unable to read print?

  2. 2. anonymous

    It looks like you'd find it sitting next to a Sinclair ZX Spectrum in a tech museum.

    I can imagine the designers conversation, "We can design something better looking than an iPod, with our eyes closed" and so they did...

  3. 3. Karen Challinor

    I wondered what happened to all the old "speak and spell" units that got binned when the "narrator" accessibility applet was released

  4. 4. Simon Allen

    This unit will not do any better than any of the others for a very simple reason: It has too many buttons.

    They might think that making it sync without a PC is good but it means the user has to learn ANOTHER interface. If you could configure from a browser (any browser) then you have to learn nothing new. It sync with BlueTooth or Wifi or cable USB, just like dozens of other devices that the user already knows about.

    Quite apart from the fact that it is geared to a USA only network, they forgot the 1st Law: Keep it Simple Stupid.

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