Reading Online
In the past few years, Amazon.com has taken over book sales like nothing before. Gone are the days of wandering through a bookstore, hoping you’ll find what you were looking for on the shelf—and feeling heartbroken when it wasn’t there. Nowadays, a few clicks on Amazon will bring almost any book straight to your doorstep, regardless of whether or not your local bookstore is sold out. Online book sales grow every year, as we become more and more accustomed to this convenience.
Amazon’s Kindle, a handheld electronic reading device, has even further changed the way we look at literature. Titles can be distributed via Kindle without authors having to jump through the hoops of a major publishing deal, and readers can enjoy books without cluttering up shelves. Reading online via the Kindle becomes more and more popular all the time. Whether it’s bound books delivered to our doorstep or files downloaded to the Kindle, Amazon has reshaped the way we think about acquiring and absorbing our favorite books.