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The Meteoric rise of the Amazon Kindle and Ebooks by Joseph Hall
With the meteoric rise of the Amazon Kindle this year, My Computer Warehouse have decided to have a look at the impact this might have on the literature world as we know it!
Although Amazon wont disclose official Kindle sales figures Amazon did report last week “For the third week in a row, customers are purchasing well over 1 million Kindle devices per week,” -Â Amazon.
The Kindle boasts over 900,000 titles, newspapers and magazines all available in under 60 seconds with its built in 3G and Wi-fi capabilities. At less than 170 grams the Kindle is lighter that a paperback and not to mention a lot more slender and a host of other amazing features such as adjustable text size for those who are hard of sight, build in dictionaries with instant look up and much much more. There are also some great Amazon Kindle Deals around to make them a very viable option for theavid book reader.
Of course if we are talking about Ereaders than we should also mention some of the others that are on the market, the Kindle’s most prominent rival is the Nook (developed by Barnes and Noble the bookstore!) which, like the Kindle, can be purchased for under £100, offers excellent battery life and instant downloads with Wi-fi and 3G capabilities. Unlike the current Kindle you can also buy a colour version of the Nook although Amazon have been quick to put that right with the pending release of the Kindle Fire which is pegged to be a competitor to the iPad!
So with these astronomical sales figures what does this mean for traditional paperback and hardback books?! Well it cant be good news! Then there are the retailers that stock and sell books, potentially for department stores that can diversify and sell the Kindle and other EBook readers it may not be so bad, but what about the major book stores, Waterstones, WHSmith and the like. We have already seen Borders go bankrupt and I can only imagine that the introduction of EBooks and readers did not help.
But in saying all this the key facts remain, writers still need publishers and publishers still need to sell. So although it may not seem like an entirely doom and gloom outlook for the traditional book and the stores that sell it, it will be a case of evolve fast or become extinct for all involved in the industry!
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