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Amazon to Reveal Big-Screen Kindle Wednesday?

by Terrence O'Brien on May 4, 2009 at 11:10 AM

Amazon to Reveal Big Screen Kindle Wednesday?

Amazon made us wait for over a year between the Kindle and the updated Kindle 2.0. But a scant three months after the unveiling of the newer e-reader, online rumors are already saying that we may see a bigger-screen Kindle as soon as this week.

Amazon has begun to send out invitations to a press event, scheduled for this Wednesday, May 6th, where many expect that a larger-screened device, targeted at readers of newspapers and magazines, will be announced. The Kindle and Kindle 2.0 have had some success as formats for reading books, but their six-inch screens, which cannot display video or color images, have not hooked the readers of online news sites. Web visitors to the New York Times, for instance, can get those perks without paying the $14 monthly subscription fee that Kindle requires for access to the paper's site. There are also dedicated free readers for the New York Times and other newspapers on mobile devices such as the iPhone and the BlackBerry.


News Corp (owner of the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and the NY Post) and magazine publisher Hearst are prepping their own larger-format Kindle competitors, so it should be no surprise that rumors have the New York Times partnering with Amazon to design a newspaper-sized e-reader.

We'll just have to wait and see if the big-screen Kindle rumors pan out. But, then again, we can't really see any reason to seriously doubt them, especially since the New York Times itself initially reported the rumors. A little self-serving, don't you think? [From: NY Times, AllThingsD, Via: Engadget]

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