Have you heard about the Kindle?

A reader from Amazon.Com at various price ranges is the latest in machinery enabling the reading of books and what used to be paper publications in an electronic or should that be digital format wherever you are.

Most publications available in this format seem to be neatly priced in the competitive $9.99 basket. Of course you may have to consider the fact that first you have to purchase the reader and the batteries that sustain it. Then it's $x for each publication you may wish to purchase and place in the reader. It's nice enough to watch the video on line about this product at the following site http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Original-Wireless-generation/dp/B000FI73MA

The discussions behind the scenes about copyright, cost attribution, changes in this market over time, the various and no doubt multiple standards for the type of lighting, viewing size, books capable of being held, how purchases are "saved" and stored somewhere to ensure that your purchase remains yours etc etc are all grist to the mill of a debate that I have not even seen much less participated in. However, what a fabulous debate. What vexed questions arise. How are they going to be resolved in a variety of settings across the world where regulations and the costs of living are so different. Where there are no doubt different standards that apply and whether questions about storage and retention are not as yet available for easy perusal in the hunt I have been able to launch from my PC up to this point.

Let's hear it now - the discussion from consumers for whom the iPod was the music revolution's beginning. Let's hear it from authors and how their work is to be valued and priced. Let's hear it from authorities who see yet another bureaucracy or ???