Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Amazon and Kindle

As libraries start looking at Kindles to use in libraries (or ebooks in general) Amazon comes out with a Kindle that is cheaper but includes advertising. As a staunch anticapitalist and library advocate, I could not say that this is something libraries should invest in. Yet, at the same time I can see it be appealing for libraries to get to be involved in the market of ebooks. I hope that this will force people to realize that e-readers are cheap and that there should be ways of providing them to places that need them (i.e. libraries) for a cheap price.

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