Kindle DX News
The new device can hold 3,500 books and has access to over 225,000 titles.
But Amazon is not the only business in the e-reader market. Sony is there and so too is the iPhone with a Kindle app (although that is only available in the US for now). Plastic Logic will unveil its version later in the year.
“The launch of the Kindle DX is further proof of the strength of the market for e-readers,” said Neil Jones, the head of Interead, an English based company releasing Kindle-competitor in a few weeks.
“The fact is e-readers don’t have many detractors left. Everyone agrees that people will continue to read books, and the time for an “iPod moment” for e-readers is now,” Mr Jones told the BBC.
A trial of the new Kindle DX service will begin in the US this summer.
The Kindle DX won’t save the news industry, but that’s not the point: a guide to our coverage of e-readers
Amazon just unveiled a bigger, more expensive version of the Kindle that will, depending on whom you ask, “rescue newspapers” or just create “false hope.”
Though details weren’t immediately available, the new, $489 Kindle DX will be available at a subsidized price for those who buy digital subscriptions to The New York Times, Washington Post, or Boston Globe (where home delivery of the print edition isn’t available.) We’ve covered the Kindle and other e-readers extensively over the past six months. Here’s a guide to our coverage, including — after the jump — video from the E-Ink laboratory where the screens for these devices were developed:
In November, we revealed that The New York Times had “more than 10,000 paid subscribers” on the Kindle for revenue of roughly $1.7 million a year. (We also ranked how other newspapers were doing on the device.) In April, I covered plans by several major news organizations to repackage their multipart, investigative series into “digital newsbooks” for e-reader devices — but not the Kindle.
Meanwhile, Josh has written extensively about the Kindle’s potential to boost the news industry. (Magic Eight Ball version: “outlook not so good.”) His provocative column, “Why the Kindle will fail,” prompted some great discussion in the comments. More recently, he observed that the age demographics of Kindle owners is pretty similar to print newspapers. In presentations, one of Josh’s key points has been that the Kindle is “more valuable as a market divider than a value creator” because it separates out the small portion of readers who are willing to pay for content.
To induce newspaper readers to use Kindle DX, Amazon is teaming with the New York Times and Washington Post in a program that will let would-be subscribers who live in areas where there is no home delivery to buy the Kindle DX at a reduced price if they agree to subscribe to a long-term subscription to the paper via the Kindle DX.
The new device can hold 3,500 books and has access to over 225,000 titles.
But Amazon is not the only business in the e-reader market. Sony is there and so too is the iPhone with a Kindle app (although that is only available in the US for now). Plastic Logic will unveil its version later in the year.
“The launch of the Kindle DX is further proof of the strength of the market for e-readers,” said Neil Jones, the head of Interead, an English based company releasing Kindle-competitor in a few weeks.
“The fact is e-readers don’t have many detractors left. Everyone agrees that people will continue to read books, and the time for an “iPod moment” for e-readers is now,” Mr Jones told the BBC.
A trial of the new Kindle DX service will begin in the US this summer.
The Kindle DX won’t save the news industry, but that’s not the point: a guide to our coverage of e-readers
Amazon just unveiled a bigger, more expensive version of the Kindle that will, depending on whom you ask, “rescue newspapers” or just create “false hope.”
Though details weren’t immediately available, the new, $489 Kindle DX will be available at a subsidized price for those who buy digital subscriptions to The New York Times, Washington Post, or Boston Globe (where home delivery of the print edition isn’t available.) We’ve covered the Kindle and other e-readers extensively over the past six months. Here’s a guide to our coverage, including — after the jump — video from the E-Ink laboratory where the screens for these devices were developed:
In November, we revealed that The New York Times had “more than 10,000 paid subscribers” on the Kindle for revenue of roughly $1.7 million a year. (We also ranked how other newspapers were doing on the device.) In April, I covered plans by several major news organizations to repackage their multipart, investigative series into “digital newsbooks” for e-reader devices — but not the Kindle.
Meanwhile, Josh has written extensively about the Kindle’s potential to boost the news industry. (Magic Eight Ball version: “outlook not so good.”) His provocative column, “Why the Kindle will fail,” prompted some great discussion in the comments. More recently, he observed that the age demographics of Kindle owners is pretty similar to print newspapers. In presentations, one of Josh’s key points has been that the Kindle is “more valuable as a market divider than a value creator” because it separates out the small portion of readers who are willing to pay for content.
To induce newspaper readers to use Kindle DX, Amazon is teaming with the New York Times and Washington Post in a program that will let would-be subscribers who live in areas where there is no home delivery to buy the Kindle DX at a reduced price if they agree to subscribe to a long-term subscription to the paper via the Kindle DX.
