Reflection on Bill Wasik’s speech.

For Bill Wasik, Kindle is a great invention is because it allows people to download heavy books into one small device, and those who do not like it is because they like to jump frm piece to piece instead of setteling down. Paying for something like “content” is too much of commitment.

I disagree with Mr. Wasik of the “commitment phobia” theory. The reason that I haven’t purchased a Kindle and the reason that I do not purchase digital books is simply because I prefer the feeling of touching the real book and paper. Reading books from the computer monitor always give me headache ten minutes after I start it.

But I agree with that short content will eventually go free online. Actually, it is already free (if we are not talking about internet pornography). Because people tend to think short content is not as important/valuable as the long ones. Long content usually is more serious and offers more in depth. For example, people would expect to get free “joke collection” but wouldn’t think they could get a free copy of “Harry Potter” online. So I guess it leaves some interesting questions for content creators and publisher to fugure out how to make revenue from their content if they decide to join the Internet market (It’s not really possible for themto say no to online viewers now).