That was the prevailing reaction when Amazon last November announced the launch of Kindle, an electronic book reader the size of a paperback that can store more than 200 volumes.

Amazon去年十一月发布电子阅读器Kindle时就是这样，这个普通书大小的玩意可以存下200多本书。

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Online bookseller Amazon has plans to unveil a wireless electronic book reader, a kind of literary iPod, which already has UK publishers scrambling to digitise their entire range of titles.

在线图书销售商亚马逊已经计划发布无线电子阅读设备，一种泛文学的iPod，它已经迫使英国出版商争先恐后的去争取这一数字出版的一系列权益。

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Electronic books do exist; the best-known is the Sony Reader, a book-sized gadget made by the eponymous consumer-electronics company.

尽管电子图书确实存在；其中最有名的是索尼公司的索尼阅读器，这个像书一样大小的装置由同名的消费电子公司生产。

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That's because, just two years after Amazon's Kindle kicked open the e-book category, consumers' attention span for yet another electronic reader launch looks to have waned.

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