Kindle and the Coming Age of Ebooks

Okay, I don’t want to sound like Sven Birkerts, (God help me, let me never sound like Sven — and by no means consider that link as an endorsement of the book at the end of it), but I agree with Chip Kidd when he dumps this post on us:
A Brief Message: Notify the Next of Kindle:

On Monday November 19th, Amazon released something called Kindle, the latest “e-book” reading device. I’ve been asked to comment on what effect I think this will have, if any, on book design as we know it. Here goes.

None.

I’m not entirely sure I agree with his postscript, in which he claims no one wants to read on a screen… but it’s been the end of books for quite some time now… and they’re still available. So get ’em while you can, I guess, because it’s the end of books. Again.

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