eBook -- will it stick this time?

Amazon announced the "Kindle" today - a wireless, eBook reader. I'm pretty impressed without even touching one. It uses eInk technology so the screen is extremely readable. you can download books for $10 a hit and it does it using the mobile (EVDO) network from Sprint -- but you don't even see the technology - made very simple. you can subscribe to newspapers for $10/month (wonder about those of us that get wsj.com already). you can add your own docs (think about technical documentation on here) and yet you can also surf wikipedia.

now the platform is relatively closed, but i believe this is to ensure a good customer experience (and more coin for Amazon). hopefully they'll expand the option to surf websites and chat (Amazon a computer maker? ;-). Either way -- this holds big promise. I hope it takes off. I certainly will buy one -- if my wife actually uses it for reading -- then i'm convinced it will be a winner. This just proves the importance of a FULL solution being delivered to the customer -- the device, the content, the simple process, all on the network -- all packaged together.

I think we are seeing the start of something very big....