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Amazon Takes The Kindle DX Abroad, Too
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Amazon recently introduced an international version of the Kindle 2, and today confirmed a similar international Kindle DX. As the international Kindle 2 is $US20 more than the domestic, the Kindle DX could see a price bump as well. [TechFlash] More »
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Princeton Students Hate The Kindle DX
7:00AM Adam Frucci | Bad news for Amazon, who’s hoping that in the future all college students will read their textbooks through the oversized Kindle DX: the first students to use it, at Princeton, are not fans. More »
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Wireless eBook Readers: Which One’ll Burn Down The Bookstore?
7:00AM Matt Buchanan | With the Sony Reader Daily Edition, the 3G-enabled eBook reader battle is pitched. At the end of this year, it’ll fight Amazon’s Kindle 2 and DX and Plastic Logic’s eReader to the death. Here’s how they all stack up now. More »
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CourseSmart Dumps 7000+ Textbooks Into The iPhone App Store
5:40AM John Herrman | They’re hugely different devices, sure, but could the iPhone be stepping on the Kindle’s toes again? CourseSmart, which offers subsciption-based, notes-capable eBooks online, has released a full-featured iPhone app for their subscribers. In other words, yes. More »
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The New Yorker’sTakedown Of The Kindle Adds To Bezos’ Headaches
12:20AM Adam Frucci | Nicholson Baker of the venerable New Yorker decided to try out Amazon’s Kindle to see if it was really the future of reading. He wrote a whopping 6,300 words on the subject, but allow me to summarise: it sucks. More »
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Sheet Music For Amazon Kindle DX Gets Rid Of The, Um, Sheet
1:00AM Matt Buchanan | Good idea or terrible idea? Sheet music on the Kindle. They catalog has 20,000 titles and they’re cheap, about $US3. Or you can always read a bunch of law textbooks. Fun! [Amazon via Gadget Lab] More »
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Kindle DX Surviving A 75cm Drop
5:40AM Jesus Diaz | According to this Amazon video, the Kindle DX can survive a 75cm drop with ease. Good, because apparently the old Kindle can’t survive some shaking in a padded sleeve, inside a laptop bag. More »
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Jeff Bezos Wants Amazon EBooks On More Devices
1:00AM John Herrman | Amazon’s Kindle App for the iPhone was a definite clue, and now Jeff Bezos is just flat stating it: the Kindle doesn’t really matter—in the long term, ebooks are where the real money’s at. More »
Computers
Kindle DX Sells Out In Two Days
4:39AM Jason Chen | Kindle DX (reviewed here) just started shipping Wednesday on Amazon and it’s already sold out. Either people really love that DX, or the Earth only produces enough resources to sustain manufacturing a few units at a time. [Amazon via Macworld]
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