Have you seen the new e-books that are coming out? If you go to www.dvice.com you can see the new Kindle 2 along with 5 other e-books. This is the future of reading people.
I see some pro's and con's to this whole concept. The pro's that I see are a more green way of reading. You don't have to worry about the fact that they are cutting down trees for your reading pleasure. All your newspaper and magazine subscriptions come straight to your e-book automatically on the date they are normally delivered to your doorstep or mailbox.
But the con's are that if you want to buy a magazine that you see at the grocery store at the checkout counter, you can't because they are all gone. That's the beauty of buying those rag magazines is that you normally wouldn't buy a subscription, you just get 1 magazine. And the newspaper is sorta similar, some people don't want it every day, they just want 1 paper. And you won't be able to clip out an article and paste it in a album showing that you were in the newspaper. Instead now you have to go to the newspapers website and search for that article and print it out. Or you can just take a picture of the article up on the screen on your e-book.
But on the other hand, if you are able to take a screen shot of the article then said article will never turn yellow over time.
**HUGE EDIT** I took out how I talked about a huge flaw in the discount and the edit about how there is a discount but some books don't. I guess if you buy a book with a huge $20 discount you can't complain when a book costs more than the actul paperback. In those cases, just buy the paperback.
Me personally, I look forward to the digital conversion. The Amazon Kindle 2 connects to their website so you can search for books and you don't have to pay for the connection to the internet. And I SO look forward to the newspaper being digital because maybe if there is urgent news you might get an evening edition. Who knows.
The only issue I have with this whole idea is that they are so freakin' expensive right now. $359 for the Amazon Kindle 1 and 2. Ok, why is the Kindle 1 still $359? The Kindle 2 has a bigger hard drive and 25% more battery life, it's also thinner and lighter. The kindle 1 has 256mb hard drive, the kindle 2 has 2 GB. Yet they are both the same price? That makes no sense. I think they should bring the price down on the Kindle 1 as an incentive to buy it as a starter e-book for people who can't afford it. Then later when they want to upgrade then they can buy the Kindle 2.
What I am waiting for are 3 things. The price to drop, color and touch screen. I watched a video on the Amazon Kindle site where the guy who created Amazon was on Martha Stewart and she kept asking about color and he said that it's in the labs so it is going to be in a future e-book. Let's hope there will be touch screen soon too for the Kindle. I went to Sony's e-book site to check prices and they are way more than Amazon. I'd much rather have the Kindle in that regard.
Add: I forgot to mention that one of the pro's of the Kindle is that you don't even need a computer to buy and download books, magazines and newspapers. And if you want a document to be on your kindle you just email it to your kindle account and it converts the file to the kindle file so you can keep it there. So you aren't just limited to Kindle books, if you buy a book somewhere else (or if someone gives you a copy of an e-book) you just email it and it converts it.
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