By Jack B. Rochester, Managing Editor, The Business Insider
We've been watching developments with the amazing Kindle these past few weeks. While the Kindle 1 and Kindle 2 are designed for everyday readers, the Kindle DX - the large-screen version - is really a business machine with more potential applications than even Jeff Bezos has likely thought of.
Amazon's intent was to create a device for learning, and its first market is college textbook publishing. Yet it's easy to see there are all kinds of additional business and educational environments where an electronic reader could replace, supplant, or at least augment learning and training.
Rather than recapitulate what has already been written and explained quite well, I'm going to redirect you to another blogsite where the story of the Kindle DX and the three publishers who have jumped aboard is told. The site is Course materials, Innovation, and Technology in Education, or CITE. Be sure to scroll down the right hand side and read the "In the News" section as well for some other observations.
The Kindle is a quite an innovation in a business that started with Gutenberg and has been going strong for over 500 years. Not only can you wirelessly download and read books, but you can also read a number of newspapers and magazines and blogs as well. Your takeaway: Writing for, or implementating on, the Kindle, should be part of your thinking for the future.
Cheers,
Jack
Jack
B. Rochester is a professional writer and editor who has worked in
nearly every aspect of publishing since 1974. He heads Joshua Tree
Interactive, and is Managing Editor of The Business Insider blog.
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