I just finished “The Devils Company” on my Kindle 1. It has been been my primary reading tool for two years now.  Kindle 2 which I have fondled but don’t own is a significant improvement.  I welcome the entrance of The Nook.  Competition breeds change and some of the change is good.  I am however buying more Amazon stock.  My guess is that Barnes and Noble doesn’t have the committment to electronic books that Amazon does.  They have a huge investment in brick and mortar book stores.  So like Kodak at the beginning of the digital photography era they are doomed.

Technology changes and the printed book is no longer the low cost way to deliver stories.  Printers will go the way of scribes and storytellers.  “Digitizers” will become the new important link in the chain between creator and reader.  Don’t worry agents and editors will still be there.

Here is the first post I made about Kindle in January 2008