According to Incremental Blogger, Amazon.com will be releasing the multi-touch version of their eReader, Kindle, for Windows 7, next month. While I love the eReader dedicated devices I strongly believe that the future of eReaders is in software not hardware.What I mean is that with the introduction of Windows 7 and the tablet devices that support it, the best reading experience will probably be on a portable multi-touch tablet or slate computer - not a dedicated eReader device.
I could be wrong, but at the very least multi-touch eReader software for Windows (and eventually the Apple Slate) will probably be far more common than dedicated devices. The reason: Cost. The eReader software for Windows 7 tablets/slates and other devices will be free because content providers want you to pay for the content not the device. eReaders devices, on the other hand, cost money and generally do not work across content providers.
Below is a video demonstrating the Kindle multi-touch Windows 7 software. It seems to work fine, but I would make a couple of modifications. First the table of contents should always be available and should be finger friendly - rather than a simple hyperlinked version shown in the demo.
Second, there needs to be a thumbnail view of the book's pages which can be resized so pages can be tinny thumbnails (8 x 8 per view) or larger (perhaps 4 per view) images. The ability to scan through a book without having to read it sequentially is really important to the reading experience.
Kindle for PC Demo on Windows 7
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