The end of print

Chris_L

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6 Aug 2010 - 12:49 PM

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I preordered one of the new generation Kindles from Amazon last week. Amazon have just launched their new UK Kindle store. Not only can commuters carry a Kindle instead of a book to read on the tube, they can get magazines or their daily paper beamed to it wirelessly.

This is the beginning of the end for printed media?

Kris_Dutson

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6 Aug 2010 - 12:54 PM

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And I bet it can't cope with bright light on it.

And a book has no batteries to go flat.

And some of us just like the feel of a book.

Doesn't mean I might not invest 'tho.

mattw (e2 Member)

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6 Aug 2010 - 1:02 PM

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With the amount of time we spend infront of our computers, being able to focus on something which is not an LCD screen for a period of time is probbly good for our eyes

whipspeed (e2 Member)

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6 Aug 2010 - 1:50 PM

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You wouldn't want to leave one on the beach though would you.

lobsterboy (Site Moderator)

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6 Aug 2010 - 2:07 PM

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I'm seeing more and more people on the train using e-readers and Kindles (unlike iPads you only ever see someone use them to read a book once - think they must be too heavy/too expensive to sit on the Tube with).

I can't say the idea particularly appeals to me - it seems to have disadvantages over a real book like cost,charging,worry about damage/losing it, media format issues, dropping it in the bath, rain and no killer advantage AFAICS.

lobsterboy (Site Moderator)

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6 Aug 2010 - 2:44 PM

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Quote: More likely they want to impress their fellow passengers with the new technology they bought.................

I think that's true for the ipad users, but the e-readers do seem to actually be being used.

I assume the ipad comes loaded with Winnie the Pooh as a free book, either that or Chapter one of it is a really good read as that is all you ever see anyone reading.

lobsterboy (Site Moderator)

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6 Aug 2010 - 3:23 PM

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Watched the video, looks pretty good - I think you NEED one

I take it they only do B&W ?

James_G

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6 Aug 2010 - 4:14 PM

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Blimey, this is one of the most popular old myths around at the moment. No, print is not over. In fact, it's very much part of the future along with the internet, electronic media etc. I don't know where anyone else goes but I travel daily on packed trains and tubes in London and you see some poseur pretending to read on a Kindle about once every five days. Everyone else settles down with a newspaper or a book. The reason print will survive is that it is so much more convenient and easier to use, then Kindles, iPads etc. No charging, no internet connection needed, it never hangs, no one gets robbed for their copy of the Daily Telegraph, it doesn't cost hundreds of pounds, you don't need IT support to read the thing and when you've finished you just chuck it away. In Britain we publish more books now than ever; globally newspaper circulation rose by 9% last year. People who love books and reading don't use Kindles. They are for the non-readers, which is fine and best of luck to them, but no one who loves literature, reading and words reads on a screen. No one.
The printed page is the interface of the future. There's nothing else that compares.