The Amazon Kindle e-book reader will be out of the market in a bang when Apple introduces the Apple Tablet (or iPad), says Steve Jobs.

The Apple Tablet will be a touchscreen MacBook used for functions as broad as browsing the web, watching movies, writing notes, playing games, and now it becomes interesting: as a device to read e-books on.

In an interview with the New York Times yesterday, Steve Jobs has hinted pretty strongly at Apple’s plans for the future. He criticizes Amazon’s Kindle strongly and continues to state that if there will be a device like the Kindle from Apple, it will be a multi-purpose device. Such as a tablet computer. Additionally he states that Apple does not see e-books as a market to move into at this point due to lack of scale.

It’s a good point. Why would a person on the move want to hold his mobile phone, media player, (touchscreen) laptop, also his e-book reader. It’s not realistic. The e-book reader is for a different kind of market. Avid book readers that stay at home, not mainstream multi-purpose media consumers.

“I’m sure there will always be dedicated devices, and they may have a few advantages in doing just one thing. But I think the general-purpose devices will win the day. Because I think people just probably aren’t willing to pay for a dedicated device.”, Steve said.