online.wsj.com - 5/5/2009
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GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and BEN WORTHEN Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday plans to unveil a new version of its Kindle e-book reader with a larger screen and other features designed to appeal to periodical and academic textbook publishers, according to people familiar with the matter. Beginning this fall, ...
kottke.org - 5/6/2009
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kottke.org —
Amazon indeed announces a Kindle with a larger
screen: the Kindle DX . Available for pre-order now...
for $490, release date is sometime this summer. Tags: kindle
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Kindle DX: larger screen
adage.com - 5/11/2009
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adage.com —
Hope bubbles inflated by irrational exuberance used to
steadily grow for years, but now they last a...
couple of days at most. On Monday, May 4, when word spread across the land that Amazon was going to unveil a big-screen Kindle, some newsy types allowed themselves a moment of optimism: Maybe this will be the gadget that saves newspapers! Then, of course, by Wednesday, when Amazon chief Jeff Bezos pulled it out of his hat, the magic instantly evaporated.
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Sorry, Senators: No Newspaper Is Worth Saving in its ...
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... — Kindle may be the invention of our time, since now it may be replacing textbooks. Remember that rip off machine known as the "College Book Store" — I'll stick to selling drugs, it's less sketchy. link ...
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... is being created in conjunction with The New York Times, as well as other news organizations, according to people briefed on the companyâs plans. The Times wouldnât comment on its relationship with Amazon. In a test-case, students at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland will be given the new Kindle DX with textbooks for chemistry and computer science already installed. The school will compare the experiences of those students with students using traditional textbooks, stated the Wall Street Journal. Five other universities are involved in the Kindle project, ...
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