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Amazon Kindle: King of the green gadgets?

amazon%20kindle.jpgThe blogger at Greensteelhomes.com makes an interesting correlation between the acceptance of green electronics and green housing, citing a Forrester Research survey that found 12% of Americans are willing to pay more for eco-friendly gizmos and toys.

The green gadget at the top of my wish list this Christmas is the Amazon Kindle. Here's the scoop from Amazon:

The Kindle is a portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper, even in bright sunlight.

Kindle customers, no matter where they are in the U.S., can wirelessly shop the Kindle Store and download new content — all without a PC or a WiFi hot spot. Amazon pays for Kindle’s wireless connectivity so there are no monthly wireless bills and no service commitments for customers. The Kindle Store contains over 90,000 books that can be purchased and delivered wirelessly to Kindle, each in less than a minute. Customers can choose from hundreds of top newspapers, magazines and blogs and have their subscriptions auto-delivered wirelessly. All New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases are $9.99, unless marked otherwise.

At 10.3 ounces, Kindle is lighter and thinner than a paperback book, carries two hundred books, and includes built-in access to The New Oxford American Dictionary and wireless access to the Earth’s biggest encyclopedia, Wikipedia.org.

The Kindle has enormous environmental implications when you think about all the paper, shipping, warehousing, etc. of books and papers that could be eliminated. 

Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 06:28AM by Registered CommenterBurke Sisco | Comments1 Comment

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This is certainly a technology that has incredibly positive possibilities, as you note.
December 4, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterWayne

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