Amazon Launches Portable eBook Reader

CNET News reports that today Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Amazon Kindle, the online-retail giant’s new electronic book reader, at New York’s W Hotel in Union Square.

He asked the crowd why books are the last bastion of analog. “Books have stubbornly resisted digitization,” he elaborated. “I think there’s a very good reason for that, and that is, the book is so highly evolved and so suited to its task that it’s very hard to displace.”

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