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.
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.
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.
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…
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]
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.
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.
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]
