The worst kept internal secret ever...

[lithera]

... is released to the world.

There is a letter from Jeff Bezos on the front page of Amazon.

I would like to introduce you all to Kindle. I think that the idea here is fantastically awesome. Seriously fantastically awesome. It automatically saves your place in every book you have loaded. As well as there being an internal dictionary, there being bookmarking and notation...

I don't know if it is cool or not and at $400 it is really pricey. I'm going to see if I can get one from the people around here to borrow it, to see if I can try it out. Because, honestly, I could see this becoming a lot like my iPod. This would be something that I would just have with me all the time.

Eventually, the idea is, that I could have any book we sell on-line in my hands in 60 seconds. Which... It makes my heart give a thump. To be able to switch out books on the plane as needed if I get bored?

If only it did graphic novels...

Comments

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Yeah. You have a lot of valid concerns and I share most of them. It'll be a bit wait and see sort of thing.

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

It's still pretty interesting though. I might get my December column out of this :)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

"Eventually, the idea is, that I could have any book we sell on-line in my hands in 60 seconds. "

Is that something that I could mention as an eventual goal or would that get you into NDA trouble?

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I can't say it is officialy an eventual goal but I can't see why it wouldn't be. So quoting me, probably not the way to go.

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

Well I wasn't going to quote you by name, just was wondering if you kind of were revealing a business plan. Sounds like you were speculating instead.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I am, in fact, speculating.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

"The vision is that you should be able to get any book—not just any book in print, but any book that's ever been in print—on this device in less than a minute," says Bezos.

That's in today's Newsweek.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

I like this. You do my research for me. I should do this more often ;)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm awesome.

I saw the quote and thought of you.