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For no obvious reason, some months after it launched in the US, the Times carries a review of Amazon.com's ebook device: the Kindle. "There is scepticism about this change in the publishing world, and a lot of fear. I’m a writer who straddles two genres - I write online games as well as literary novels - so my less technologically literate novelist friends often ask me, with trepidation, whether the new technologies mean the end of the traditional novel. Publishers also look nervously at the experience of the music and video industries."
The conclusion is: "The Kindle isn’t likely to revolutionise our book-reading habits and ways of writing just yet. And many of these theoretically possible technological advances may not pan out. Yet, 10 years ago, nobody saw the iPod coming. The e-book will change the book world: it is just a question of when, and how."