E-Commerce Times Talkback

Is the Kindle about to catch fire? Could Amazon.com's seven-month-old wireless e-book reader -- a rectangular wonder in antique iPod white, able to download any of 125,000 books adapted to its format -- be the tipping point that marks the decline and fall of the paper book? If those two questions continue to dominate techno-talk in the book-publishing industry, it's because book folk, being weaker in gizmo-related prognostication than, say, the devotees of a consumer electronics show, aren't sure.

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