amazon.com's new e-book device, Kindle

I'm sure many of you out there have heard about this new device that's being sold by Amazon.com called the Kindle, it's a neat little device and I was watching the Charlie Rose show where he was interviewing Jeff Bezos, and discussing this little device. It's interesting what the iPod and iTunes did for music, this device and amazon.com will be doing for books. It costs 300 bucks but give you the ability to look up words in a built-in dictionary by highlighting a word from an e-book that you are reading, it can store 200 books and books are quite cheap and can be downloaded wirelessly I believe they use sprint as their wireless service provider. I think it's important that when you release a device that it be tied to a service, just as how iPod seems to be tied to iTunes thus expanding the available content that you can place on the device as the Kindle is doing with amazon.com, which has 1,000's of e-books and newspapers and magazines available, even though I'm sure there will be issues with DRM as there are with the iPod but this is a good start, even though it looks a little bulky and will take away from the analog feel of turning pages and reading a book it's a nice way to move forward in being able to carry around 100's of books without weighing you down.