What is Kindle?
Kindle is a new electronic reader that is being marketed by Amazon at a one-time purchase cost of about $300. They are already offering many thousands of titles that are downloadable to the Kindle reader by a wireless technology similar to the one used by your cell phone, but there are no continuing monthly costs for the service. This means that the reader is constantly connected, enabling the user to browse Amazon’s selection of e-books from almost anywhere, download a free sample first chapter of the books that interest them, and then download the remainder of any book they like. This takes just a minute or two, and the purchase is billed automatically to a credit card. Downloading most titles costs from about $4 to an average of about $10. While books have been available in various electronic formats for many years, Amazon’s implementation appears to have solved the various problems associated with electronic books that have hampered their wide-spread acceptance. The quality of the
