Amazon’s new Kindle 2, please read me a story: The Kindle 2 is sleeker and faster, stores more books and keeps a charge longer. Plus, there’s an extra twist: It talks. [Los Angeles Times]
How to start a reading revolution: It’s quite possible to find primary schools where older children don’t have the experience of reading a whole book, of talking about it in an open-ended way. In such schools, the library may be not much more than a corner in a corridor; visits to the local library may be non-existent; local writers and people who work with the printed word may never visit the school. [Guardian]
Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones: In a move that could bolster the growing popularity of e-books, Google said Thursday that the 1.5 million public domain books it had scanned and made available free on PCs were now accessible on mobile devices like the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1. [NYT]
Will You Recognize the Industry in 10 Years?: Someday, all data and applications will be “in the cloud”—that is, existing independently from, but accessible by, digital devices. All the devices most used every day will then need almost no memory. When we say “screens” in that context, it will mean the same thing as saying “devices” or “computers.” The screens of the future will all connect to all the information and all the computing power all the time. [Book Business]
Rival to Amazon Kindle Finds Partners: Unlike the other products, the screen of the Plastic Logic Reader is big enough to more closely approximate the look of a printed newspaper or magazine page. [NYT]
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