Yet another e-book reader

Amazon Kindle Well, to be fair, this does seem to have made a bit of a leap from it's predecessors in that it's actually wireless and doesn't need a PC to retrieve material. Amazon appears to be picking up the expense of the wireless. The Kindle is also using an electronic paper display screen which could solve some of the fuzzy display problems from the past. The price is still a bit steep though at $399. A ebook reader could be a boon for college students with sore backs from lugging heavy textbooks around, but a niche market like that doesn't seem to be where the technology is headed.

ATM for books?

This news piece in the November 2 issue of Time magazine is a bit of an eye opener. An ATM for Books.

It describes a printer that can publish a 300 page paperback book in a matter of minutes and could be used to create on demand copies of hard to find titles.

On Demand Books Inc. is still in a fledgling state, but it will be interesting to see if this kind of service takes hold.