On Monday, the Kindle 2 will become the first e-reader available globally. The only other events as important to the history of the book are the birth of print and the shift from the scroll to bound pages. The e-reader, now widely available, will likely change our thinking and our being as profoundly as the two previous pre-digital manifestations of text. The question is how. And the answer can be found in the history of earlier book forms.
via online.wsj.com
I'm all for the Kindle, and the wireless content delivery internationally is killer, but I don't know if it's enough to be a milestone in the book's history.