For the past several months I’ve been traveling and lecturing on “The Remaking of Reading.” This morning I woke up to news of Amazon’s new Kindle device on Slashdot, linking to a cover story in Newsweek. It’s wireless, and also lets you read blogs and other Web content. Jeff Bezos wants to believe it will be the “iPod of reading.”
Hello, research funds. Guess I’m going to get me one.
Tomorrow, meanwhile, the National Endowment for the Arts is set to release a follow up to its 2004 Reading at Risk report. I spoke to a Washington Post reporter about it this past Friday, so I’m eager to read it in full.
Posted by mgk at November 18, 2007 10:08 AM