The Amazon Kindle is receiving excellent press coverage. The Newsweek story suggests the Amazon Kindle is the iPod of Reading.

The Kindle is not just for books. Via the Amazon store, you can subscribe to newspapers (the Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Le Monde) and magazines (The Atlantic). When issues go to press, the virtual publications are automatically beamed into your Kindle. (It's much closer to a virtual newsboy tossing the publication on your doorstep than accessing the contents a piece at a time on the Web.) You can also subscribe to selected blogs, which cost either 99 cents or $1.99 a month per blog.


Yes, connectivity is the enhanced feature of this reader over Sony. Plus, purchasing a book is fast, with delivering in less than a minute. In fact, this is why the Kindle is not a hardware device but a service.


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