Amazon launched today its own eBook reader, the Kindle.
With an apparently impressively easy to read black-and-white e-Ink screen, and integrated free cellular data connection to download books and connect to a selection of newspapers, magazines and blogs (you need a paid subscription for these, including the blogs!). This is a huge launch for Amazon that could redefine their entire business if the gizmo is a success.
Even though the event was a few blocks away from our NY office in Union Square, I was too busy to go (or was it that I never got an invite?) so you’ll have to trust TechCrunch’s first impressions!
Well I’m sold on the high tech black and white screen. What happened to hologram paper and flying cars already? This thing looks like its a predecessor to the first Palm Pilot. Fake Steve Jobs gives the best insight on this steaming blend of technology and humor.