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The Impact Of The Kindle On The Book Industry
The Kindle has revolutionized the book industry. It changed the way people read. It allows for them to have any book or magazine at the tips of their fingers. This eventually lead to Apple creating iBooks just a few years later. There are now online audio books that reads the book to you. There will always be people who prefer a physical hard copy of a book, however the Kindle is changing the way people read and interact with
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