The article ‘International Version of Kindle Out for Christmas’ (Harvey 2009) is about Amazon’s international version of Kindle e-book reader. It uses high-speed hand phone networks to retrieve download books, magazines, newspapers or personal documents. Amazon's founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos expects the sales of e-books to overtake the sales of traditional physical books.
Kindle being an electronic book (e-book) are great for people who travels a lot (Briggs 2009) and are avid readers around because it is compact and thus convenient to carry around. As Walsh (2006) states that form and function give meaning to a text, and used in this context, the kindles form of being light and compact that fulfils its function to make it convenient for users, which makes it so popular. To an extent that, it might obsolete physical books, as it is already a current phenomenon where people spend so much of their time reading from the screen of the computer. The kindle is said by the author that it is sleek device and come with functions to personalise the typography of the content which makes it a good buy to the young as Nielson (2005) said, teenagers don't like tiny font sizes any more than adults do. So the could personalise the fonts as they please.
Kindle being an electronic book (e-book) are great for people who travels a lot (Briggs 2009) and are avid readers around because it is compact and thus convenient to carry around. As Walsh (2006) states that form and function give meaning to a text, and used in this context, the kindles form of being light and compact that fulfils its function to make it convenient for users, which makes it so popular. To an extent that, it might obsolete physical books, as it is already a current phenomenon where people spend so much of their time reading from the screen of the computer. The kindle is said by the author that it is sleek device and come with functions to personalise the typography of the content which makes it a good buy to the young as Nielson (2005) said, teenagers don't like tiny font sizes any more than adults do. So the could personalise the fonts as they please.
As I see it, traditional text-based books continue to be around as not everyone is in favour of using e-books, there are still many who enjoy the old fashion way of reading, which is from a physical book.
References
Biggs, J 2009, 10 reasons to buy a Kindle 2… and 10 reasons not to, Crunch Gear.com, viewed 18 November 2009, http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/25/10-reasons-to-buy-a-kindle-2-and-10-reasons-not-to
Harvey, M 2009, International version of Kindle out for Christmas’, The Australian, viewed 18 November 2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/international-version-of-kindle-out-for-christmas/story-e6frg90o-1225784098422.
Nielson, J 2005, Usability of Websites for Teenagers, viewed 18 November 2009, http://www.useit.com/alertbox/teenagers.html.
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