The Kindle DX gets refreshed today with a lower price of $US379, and a 9.7-inch screen with 50 per cent better contrast. It also happens to come in a graphite finish. Ships on July 7th but orders start now. More »
A whole cottage industry has sprung up around the idea of modifying Moleskine notebooks to house gadgets, and now the historic brand is getting in on the action themselves: they’re now offering an official, no-hacking-required Moleskine cover for the Kindle. More »
Amazon just gave their Kindle DX a worldwide launch, plus extended the mobile internet coverage across the globe for content downloads no matter where you’re at. International customers can pre-order now, and it will ship on January 19 for $US490. More »
When Amazon launched the global Kindle back in October last year, they said that they’d be following up with a global version of the larger DX model some time in 2010. Well, it looks like it might happen sooner rather than later… More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
