Big Kindle sells out quickly - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

goldenayreyg1666.blogspot.com
New Kindle DXs will be availablerJune 17, the company said on its site. That coule mean a rush for customersa buying themfor Father’s Day over the followinyg weekend. Amazon designed the large-screen DX with newspapers and textbooksin mind. At nearly $500 a pop, it’s quite an investment. But though the screen’sx still just black-and-white, and shows newspaper photographdsin grayscale, some see it as a boost for a floundering newspaper industry. Customers can have their favoritenewspapers “delivered” every morninh to the device, sometimes for less monehy than a traditional subscriptioh thumped onto their porch.
The Kindls version of a newspaper hasno ads, whicy appeals to readers. Amazon splits revenue from the subscriptiohn with the media company that produceethe newspaper. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has promoted the new Kindle hoping to lock customers into its system beforew rival devices and programscome along. Already, savvh major newspapers have setup “apps” for ’a (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, makinvg their sites easy to navigate and read. Both the New York Timezs and Wall Street Journal format their sitess on the iPhonewith easy-to-read headlines and thumbnail photos in a Both sites are free and supported by ads.
giant (NASDAQ: GOOG), which has its fingers in a lotof pies, is rumored to be workiny on some kind of e-reader And Plastic Logic, based in the United Kingdom, is developinh a flexible plastic screen for similar