In the reports about a delay to the launch of the Amazon Kindle in the UK is the news that Amazon expects to have sold 380,000 units this year by year’s end. The Kindle is an incredibly disruptive device – it enables the download of books wirelessly from the Internet.
You can also sign up for newspaper subscriptions through the Kindle. Take the Wall Street Journal, the Kindle subscription is US$9.99 a month.
The delay with the European launch, and in Australia for that matter, relates to licencing around wireless access.