A decade after Jeff Bezos launched a revolution in reading – and a $1bn money-spinner – much has changed in the book trade. George W Bush was in the White House, Chris Brown was topping the Billboard chart and Jeff Bezos … well, on 19 November 2007, Jeff Bezos was doing “the most important thing we’ve ever done” and launching the Amazon Kindle. Here in the UK, Nielsen suggests that digital books now make up around a quarter of the market. But the Kindle was never only a portable bookshop, it was also a publishing house. The publishing market has changed beyond recognition over the last decade, but what about the reading experience in the Kindle age?

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2017 10:52 UTC