Kindle 3 a game changer

Kindle 3

This is amazing. It's not colo(u)r, it's not touch-senstitive, it doesn't have a proximity or orientation sensor. But it displays books in a way that we haven't seen since, well, the advent of paper. The ease of browsing for books, magazines and papers (a topic I didn't cover today) within the device is unsurpassed. I real-life compared this to the iPad and I much (well, "much, much, much") preferred the Kindle. The iPad is bigger and more colourful, but the Kindle is easier to read which is, to be totally honest, the whole point.

When you look at the entire infrastructure that Amazon has provided, from easy (free) publishing, to the distribution system, to an incredibly usable hardware device, it's easy to predict the death of the hardback, the paperback, publishers and bookshops. I'll mourn some of them…