Today, 9 February 2009, in a small auditorium in New York City, Amazon introduced the world to its second generation portable e-book, the Kindle 2.
In this blog, we’ll follow the progress of the Kindle 2 from today’s US launch to its UK launch later this year; all the time keeping an eye on what our friends over the pond are saying about Amazon’s much feted, much anticipated e-book, while discussing the more general question: do we really want e-books – be it a Kindle 2, a Sony e-book reader, or even a bloated iphone? Or, can we really leave the treasured, sand-riddled, coffee-stained, porridge paged, paperback behind?
I was entertained by Techcrunch’s John Biggs who blogged live from the event.
