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Amazon.com has experienced huge success with their on-the-go electronic book reader, Kindle. Third quarter sales were up along with their stock prices, and they contribute much of the success they have experienced to large Kindle sales. In fact, Amazon was able to report that third quarter sales increased by 28% when compared to last years figures. It would appear that many readers enjoy the flexibility that an on-the-go electronic book reader can offer.
It appears that Amazon has been taking notes from Apple, and pretty soon they will now offer their portable electronic book reader as an application that you can run on your computer. Why does this make a difference for that particular industry?
Kindle should do for books and literature what iTunes has done to help revolutionalize music. Now people will be able to download books to their computer and read them on their computer. While some will always prefer reading a book on paper rather than on an LCD screen, let's face it, getting used to this type of movement may be necessary. One way that we can "go green" is to save the paper it takes to print millions of books by reading them on our computers instead.
But this also opens the doors to piracy issues. It would be very easy to download a book and read it on the computer without ever having to pay for it. If this happens like it has happened to the music industry, the authors will suffer. After all, music artist can tour and sell out record crowds at many venues, but an author may not be able to tour and sell out arenas. The music industry uses touring as a backup for the hit they take on illegal music downloading, but what will writers do to make up for the loss of income?
However, I do hope that the release of Kindle for PC will entice more people to read books now. The possibilities really start adding up when you think about them. For example, if you don't like reading but enjoy stories then you could sit back and relax while your computer reads the text for you. That would be a nice feature for some folks, especially the elderly or the disabled.
You can find out more about the Kindle release on PC by going here.
Source: Wireless Weekly
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