Kindle – what a life changing invention. This small device made reading “cool” again by enabling users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media via wireless networking. But what does it have to do with Israel?
It is a life changing technological development, that is what. You probably know by now that Israel is not called the Startup Nation for no reason. The Israeli mind is just full of ideas. Therefore, it will probably won’t come as a surprise for you to know that the Kindle was mainly developed in the Herzliya city Industrial Zone in Israel.
An Israeli team led by Lilach Zipory was put in charge of developing the technical design and the platform to run the software on for the e-book reader Amazon Kindle. Zipory herself told Israel C21 all about the process of bringing Kindle to life. You can read it