“In October, the online retailer Amazon.com will unveil the Kindle, an electronic book reader that has been the subject of industry speculation for a year. Also this fall, Google plans to start charging users for full online access to the digital copies of some books in its database.”
“[T]hese new services, from two Internet heavyweights, may help to answer the question of whether consumers are ready to read books on digital screens instead of on processed wood pulp.” See The New York Times 09/06/07