Amazon’s Kindle will hopefully do a lot to increase the popularity of ebooks and other electronic documents. It’s a portable, wireless, electronic device that allows you to view ebooks and other electronic documents. Amazon touts its “electronic paper display” - Amazon must want to make it seem like you are still reading a newspaper. At $399, it’s not too pricey. The real kicker is it includes free wireless connectivity. Amazon has its own wireless network called Whispernet. The Kindle uses that for connectivity, and Whispernet appears to have pretty good coverage throughout the nation. Can you check your email and surf the web on a Kindle? It appears that Amazon chooses what websites and blogs that it’s willing to serve up over Whispernet. So we may be out of luck on checking our email. Althought the product description does say: “Email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) to Kindle for easy on-the-go viewing.”

Part of the fun is that you can subscribe to the electronic versions of various newspapers and read them on your Kindle. I guess Internet hasn’t killed the newspaper star yet.

I’ve looked into providing ebooks for Kindle through Amazon’s Digital Text Platform. Amazon gives ebook authors a 35% royalty per sale. I’m not too happy about that but will upload a few ebooks to see how they sell through Amazon.

I’m up in the air about getting a Kindle. I’d like to have one to report on it here. I’ll toss that one around a bit first though.

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