It was probably inevitable that Amazon would look for some more directly lucrative use for the piles of books they have as data of some format or other for their "search inside this book" feature, beyond just providing the same sort of experience you can get by walking into a book store and browsing. I suspect they were rather vague about who might actually use such a gadget who would not do better with audiobooks, or the library, or disposable paperbacks. Personally, in 1990 I said that I'd wait until a PDA or some such came out that cost $10 and that I could drop onto a concrete floor a dozen times and still have it work. Hasn't happened yet.

I'd love to have a computer with that kind of display resolution, even if it wasn't all that fast. Apparently most people would rather watch movies on their cell phones.