Amazon’s Kindle is a breakthrough device that made e-books as popular amongst common people as iPod made MP3.  It offers a convenient way of reading books on the go.  It blends perfectly with the modern electronic era that not only reduces printing, transporting and distributing costs but also saves papers and hence trees. The cost of publishing an e-book is drastically cheaper than its printed version.  For authors who prefer to self-publish e-books, the overall budget is very cost effective.  Similar costs when extended to users, makes Amazon e-books highly affordable for its customers. New...

We all love to read books.  We purchase a number of books of our choice and treasure our collection.  But, we also love to share this collection with our friends and patrons.  We wish to share with them our ideas, thoughts and comments pertaining to the book, its author, its storyline and so on.  This is equally applicable for both printed books and e-books.  We want this freedom irrespective of its media being print or digital.  With printed books, this is no issue at all but with e-books issues of DRM and publishers and distributers disinterests becomes big obstacles in lending and borrowing...

As per Amazon’s new “Kindle Library Lending” feature, 11,000 libraries throughout the United States can now loan books to Amazon Kindles.  While some libraries were lending books for Sony Reader and Barnes and Noble Nook earlier also, this facility now will enable them to lend books in Kindle format to Amazon account holders also.  Kindle users can borrow books from libraries and download them using Amazon’s Whispersync wireless network to any Kindle device or free Kindle application for Android, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone.  Users can visit the...

E-books are light weight, compact, and easy to carry.  Kindle uses eInk technology that allows the screen to display text like a paper page with minimal glare that makes reading easy even in strong sunlight.  E-readers use very less battery power.  The cost of publishing an e-book is much lesser than that of a printed book.  So, authors and publishers don’t need to sell copies in bulk to generate a sustainable profit margin.  All these aspects are making e-books more popular, prominent and widely acceptable today.  Publishing houses have also started giving weightage to e-books now.  But, the...