

It was not too complex a device to use for any age. However, that wasn’t where the Kindle’s greatness ended.

Its advantages included its size, and capacity to do its desired tasks. Kindle became so prolific because of the diffusion of innovations. Portable reading became endemic in people who loved stories, but didn’t have the space for multiple books and who wanted access to millions of titles without being required to make their way to a book store whenever the desire struck.

Now, there are apps, browser sites, devices and more that connect users with digital reading material. There really wasn’t any such thing as the e-book market before Amazon released it’s Kindle. Its size (being able to fit inside a woman’s purse) and its massive storage space, which could hold thousands of books, made it the ideal travel and work companion. It was the first accessible device of its kind. It was a project kept heavily under wraps by Amazon while it was being developed for fear that Apple or Google was on its way to producing a competitor. The Kindle took the electric book market by storm when it was introduced in 2007.
