What Does Kindle Mean for Bibles?
If my history on the printing press is not obscured, one of the first books printed for mass consumption was the Bible (the NT I believe). Books and Bibles have pretty much had a solid relationship. Much like newspapers though, Bibles have felt the digital pinch to be more streamlined, digital, and versatile for all types of studying/reading and users.
Today, Amazon has released the Kindle. This is an ebook reader designed to usher (again) the idea of reading eBooks to a wider audience. While this follows a subscription-based model, one has to wonder what the advent of such "book services" means for the Bible.
- Will Bible publishers move towards subsctition-based publishing methods (like iPocketBible) for connected devices?
- Will Bibles ever adapt a common format for those electronic books (making reader applications the differing factor)?
- Will the Bible be the last major basteon for paper books?
As much as I am a digital nut, just visitng a church this weekend reminded me about how far ahead of the minds of many that having a digital Bible can be. This is not to say that there is a long road ahead, but before devices like Kindle can catch any fire, there needs to a good deal of education and collaborative work.
- thanks to Mobile Read for the tip
posted by Antoine @ 11/19/2007 05:00:00 PM
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- Will Bibles ever adapt a common format for those electronic books (making reader applications the differing factor)?
The creator of Laridian wrote a great article about why this is unlikely to ever happen in this month's Christian Computing Magazine. He was respondng to my call for just this very thing in my October article in the same magazine. Rairdin explains perfectly why this will unlikely ever happen.
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