future of reading
Newsweek’s cover article features Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on the future of reading, covering Amazon’s goal to conquer the last bastion of analog culture, i.e. the book. Amazon’s soon to be launched, always-connected ebook reader Kindle aims to be the “iPod of reading”.The ebook dream stays alive and it advances … yet doubts remain whether this product form factor is the killer one. From a user-centred (interaction/experience design) point of view, regardless of the many fantastic interactive features we miss in traditional, printed books, one cannot help but miss the physical pleasure of flipping a page, of feeling the different textures of paper, its light-reflective quality and flexibility, its smell, the various sizes and coverings in which books come etc. in all of today’s ebook readers. Nevertheless, new generations of epaper around the corner look promising in this respect.Update: see Kindle’s official page over at Amazon.com.
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