Key Post EOTO: The Amazon Kindle

                                      

The Amazon Kindle is a staple device in the technology community that is used as another device for reading. The Amazon Kindle was first created in 2008. The creator of the Amazon Kindle is also the founder of Amazon prime Jeff Bezos. The original kindle’s release was met with pushback because of its pricey cost of four hundred dollars. The design of the first kindle was a large white device with a keyboard attached to it. The evolution of the Amazon Kindle created a revolution in reading and electronic devices. 

The Amazon Kindle is a device that uses what Britannica called “electronic paper”, which produces a sharp screen image that resembles text printed on paper.” (Britannica Encyclopedia, 2025). The Amazon Kindle is a great device that is loved by many for its small design and easy readability. However, as a Kindle user myself some of the drawbacks are no brightness setting, and unfortunately you do not own the rights to the books you purchase. However, I do appreciate having a device that I am able to take with me anywhere. 

The growth of the Kindle device since 2008 is astonishing, because according to a ten year history of the amazon kindle, the device has many different attributes and attachments to the device. For example, a year after Kindle was released in 2009 Amazon released a second version named Kindle 2 that featured an option to read the text aloud from the device.

The evolution of the Kindle continued further when sales became global in the year 2009. According to Amazon news “October 2009 Kindle goes global building on the mission of making every book, ever written, in any language, available in 60 seconds or less, customers around the world now had access to Kindle.” (Amazon, 2017). The Kindle has become a staple in the reading community. However, behind every positive device, there are downsides to it. The Kindle’s downsides are the inability to fully own the digital books you purchase

 

For example, According to Digital Matters the University of Utah,  “As a business model, this makes a certain amount of sense; it’s standard practice to protect media content from easy replication and redistribution. However, even if a user has bought and paid for an eBook (which isn’t actually the case), any manipulation of that file is jealously guarded” (David Roh, 2018). The protections around Kindle users and the inability to share books with your friends or family members can be annoying. However, I understand the reason Amazon does it to avoid pirating and a loss of revenue if books are not paid for in full

In closing, the Amazon Kindle is a device that is very influential in the reading community. The creation by Jeff Bezos went on to become a cult favorite in the United States and across the world. The Amazon Kindle was a device that changed the way people read and retained information. The Amazon Kindle became a staple device because of its capabilities and large digital library capacity attached to Amazon. Amazon and its creation of the Kindle device led to a large expansion of digital reading instead of strictly physical books.