Amazon’s new Kindle DX ($489), has a 9.7-inch E-Ink screen and is just 1/3 of an inch thick. The Auto-Rotating Screen changes from portrait to landscape as you turn the device so you can view full-width maps, graphs, tables, and Web pages. It holds up to 3,500 books, periodicals, and documents. Built-In PDF Reader, text-to-speech and WhisperNet.
Features:
- 9.7-inch E-Ink screen (1200 x 824 with 16 shades of grey)
- 1/3 of an inch thick (10.4″ x 7.2″ x 0.38″)
- 4GB Storage for 3,500 books (a bump from 1,500)
- Long battery life
- Native PDF support through built-in reader
- Automatic landscape/portrait text rotation
- Navigation buttons moved to right side of screen only
- EVDO for 60-second book transfers
- No Wi-Fi
The New York Times Company and Washington Post Company are launching pilots with Kindle DX this summer. The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post will offer the Kindle DX at a reduced price to readers who live in areas where home-delivery is not available and who sign up for a long-term subscription to the Kindle edition of the newspapers.
Leading textbook publishers Cengage Learning, Pearson, and Wiley, together representing more than 60 percent of the U.S. higher education textbook market, will begin offering textbooks through the Kindle Store beginning this summer. Textbooks under the following brands will be available: Addison-Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, Longman & Prentice Hall (Pearson); Wadsworth, Brooks/Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Heinle, Schirmer, South-Western (Cengage); and Wiley Higher Education.
Kindle DX will be released this summer.
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You can read Fictionwise e-books using eReader or Stanza. The Random House Free Library, currently stocks 10 mainstream e-books and there’s Google Book Search, a browser-based solution that connects you to a whopping 1.5 million public-domain books at http://books.google.com/m. Teleread explains where and how to obtain free e-books of all kinds. Unencrypted Mobi/PRC e-books using the Mobipocket format can be read on the Amazon Kindle.
