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New Kindle DX to Be Given to College Students for Textbooks

by Chad Mumm on May 5, 2009 at 10:48 AM


Amazon is hosting a press event in New York City on Wednesday, which means there's a new Kindle on the way. Our colleagues over at Engadget dug up some spy photos and basic specs of the new device, which is being called the Kindle DX. Improvements over the current Kindle 2 include a larger, 9.7-inch display, a built-in PDF reader, and the ability to add annotations (as well as notes, as before). Word has it that the New York Times subscriptions will be $9.95 a month, compared to the current $13.99, and the Wall St. Journal is reporting that the new device will be distributed to students at Case Western Reserve in Ohio next fall -- for textbooks (let's hope that e-textbooks are a lot cheaper on the Amazon Kindle store than they are in real life at most college bookstores). [From: Engadget and Wall St. Journal]

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