large-screen Kindle
Ring Yang
Amazon will begin selling a jumbo-screen Kindle electronic readerthis summer. But the book is still open on whether the students andnewspaper readers that Amazon is targeting will embrace the KindleDX's $489 price tag — or whether the device will help fortify theailing media business.The DX has a 9.7-inch display, vs. the6-inch screen of Amazon's Kindle 2 model. The larger screen makesreading electronic versions of newspapers, magazines, textbooks,even sheet music, more palatable than on the $359 Kindle 2
By Edward C. Baig, USATODAY