Amazon: Reinventing the Book Newsweek.com
After reading this great article on Amazon's new (ebook reader) device - Kindle, I was impressed with some of the references Steven Levy made.
Especially the epilogue is interesting. I totally agree with him and to add to it, there would be no more trees to produce paper to be processed into books.
I would bet on shares of companies investing in recycling of existing waste paper.
Looking at the current apathy of yuppies not being able to write a 100 word composition in plain english. teachers have reported students being addicted to sms-text english.
some interesting articles on the Gen Y & technology
- Text Messaging and the death of English Language
- The Detrimental effects of america's individualistic youth
Devices like Kindle are going to be a sure welcome relief to the gadget folks.
But still the book (quote from the article) has undergone over 5000 years of technology improvisation is sure to stay. We humans have also genetically inherited the passion towards paper/physical books. It might still stay kicking alive for a few more decades.
With technology and services like Kindle replacing the traditional way of reading a good novel, We are sure to find the last few books to be preserved by those Librarians who want to keep literary artefacts available for reference in the future.
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