Amazon unveils e-book device
$399 Kindle is size of paperback, with access to 90,000 titles
By Wailin Wong
November 22, 2007

CHICAGO - Consumers have mobile phones and digital music players. They write e-mails, surf the Web and watch videos on YouTube. Yet digital publishers and manufacturers are still trying to convince consumers to modernize that most old-fashioned medium: the book.

On Monday, Amazon.com Inc. entered the fray with Kindle, a $399 device that will try to do for books what the iPod did for music: use a new gadget to promote a digital-based industry. the rest image

The Victorian iPod