Just as
with the Kindle 2, Amazon posted the Kindle DX product page while the
launch event was underway. Specs-wise, there's not much here
we didn't know: the big changes are a larger 9.7-inch screen that rotates to landscape display, a PDF reader, and more storage space at 3.3GB. The big news is actually the flat $489 price tag, which seems on the high-side of realistic to us -- although the subsidy-pricing rumors weren't totally inaccurate, as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe will offer subsidized on-contract Kindles to customers who can't get at-home delivery when the DX ships this summer. (Yes, that's a pretty lame restriction.) Amazon's also announcing a wide range of textbook publishing partnerships, with tomes from Addison-Wesley, Wiley Higher Education, Longman & Prentice Hall and many others available -- and what's more, Arizona State, Case Western Reserve, Princeton, Reed, and Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia have all signed on to distribute "hundreds" of Kindle DXs to students this fall. We're hunting for more info, stay tuned.
Read - Kindle DX product page
Read - Kindle DX PR
[Thanks, Jason G]
Other Kindle DX reading:Read - Editorial: Engadget on the Kindle DX
Read - Live from Amazon's Kindle event in NYC!
Read - Amazon Kindle DX first hands-on (with video!)
Read - Kindle DX college plans revealed: only 300 students total
Read - Poll: Will you buy a Kindle DX?
posted May 6th 2009 10:35AM
I have a paper book. It's wireless too.
I think they are pushing these toward students because then they will be able to sell more eBook versions of textbooks to them that can never be resold. The license expires at the end of the semester and it automatically deletes.
No, thanks. I'll stick with actual textbooks.
I didn't find any info on the Kindle DX allowing textbook readers annotation, highlighting, etc.--typical things college students do in textbooks. Did I miss these features?
Unless they removed those features, they exist. I'm doing those things on my Kindle2 for my text books now.
All Kindles have that...it is one of the major things that folks overlook. The ability to download purchased (or free public domain) books without being in wifi range or paying for the wireless broadband connection.
native PDF support on a small screen means either scrolling or so small you can't read it...PDF as a format doesn't 'flow' for different pagination...
I want one.
I'd pay $299 max.
It doesn't work outside U.S. ?
Fail.
Once again...for some of us the Kindle DX isn't the best solution. But for a lot of people, it will be an amazing device. For the people who say you can buy a netbook for that price, try reading a netbook or laptop for hours on end without your eyes (or brain) hurting. Have you ever read the e-ink display of a kindle. They are amazing. It's like a smooth scoop of ice cream for your eyes. Color would simply not be that sharp and would require two different types of display (lcd for color, e-ink is in the very primitive form for color) and I find color distracting when I am trying to immerse myself in a text. Plus, consider that price in college. You pay about a thousand a year for textbooks. Kindle textbooks (judging by Amazon's current pricing) will be about half the price. You will recoup the price of it within the first year, save the other years of college and have a device that will save your back and spine. I'd say that's a good investment.
As for saving newspapers, I'm not sold on it yet. But I think it's a good first step.
$50, not a penny more.
50 dollars won't even buy you the screen.
Nice e-reader but it has flaws and one of the biggest is the price. You are talking about a cost that is reaching beyond the netbook market and into the laptop market. I do not know anyone that would pay that price. Next the attempt to target it to students may not work. What do student do in thier text books they highlight sections for studying and did not see anyway to do this on the Kindle, and no color. Now on my Tablet PC I got color I can highlight useing books and mags from zinio you can make notes all over. With the next version of netbooks or nettablets you can do what the kindle does and a whole lot more.
Huh. I bought a Kindle 2 just over a month ago and my one complaint was the lack of PDF support. Now, instead of updating the firmware to add PDF support, they come out with a new Kindle that supports PDFs, but the old Kindle gets left out in the cold.
In conclusion, fuck you Amazon.
Very expensive and they still don`t officially support other formats. I want to be able to drop all kinds of files directly on it, I don`t want to use Amazon`s shitty store.
The Kindle does support non-DRM Mobi. Which almost any document can easily and transparently be converted to with the free Mobipocket reader software. Or you can use the email converter that Amazon has supplied.
Now if you expect them to support other protected formats, then you're dreaming. But hey there are other devices out there for that. Not may 9.7" yet, but that's supposed to change soon.
Amazon has got it wrong! The kindle DX looks great, but the price is a JOKE.
They should have dropped whisper net, made it WiFi only and lowered the price to $200.
They would have cleaned up at universities.
There is not need for whisper net. Almost every campus is wireless already and if its not, whisper net probably isn't available any ways.
Dropping whispernet isn't enough to get the price to $200. EInk isn't the cheapest screen technology around. The 6" ones have supposedly dropped under a hundred. But of course this one is much larger, and is newer so most likely doesn't have the anywhere near the same production numbers.
those who think their textbooks will be close to $10 or significantly cheaper than paper are dreaming. as an example, go to the informIT site (most tech textbooks will be from their family of publishers). most PDFs are very close to the same price as the paper textbooks. and more expensive than used books.
Most people here are stuck on the price... I'm thinking this is the first piece of technology that has actually started saving paper and the environment.
Think about the energy needed to power the paper plant, and then the printing press. Then there's the gas needed to transport the books to the book store, which you drive to, to pickup your book, or have it shipped to your home.
With the kindle there is significantly less environmental impact.
Buy a Kindle save a Forest!
Amazon Kindle DX slim just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazine.
Look review Amazon Kindle DX at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4EGwrUv__g
Stop - - Look at the partnerships with the college text publishers. This is the cellphone model. Publishers will subsidize the cost and share content sales with Amazon. Then Amazon will net other sales off of personal content. It is a natural play and not surprising. A sub 2 pound device that allows you to carry a semester worth of books with me and have the ability to reference journal docs, etc. It will be huge on campus.
Here is the kicker, Barnes and Noble and Follette's lease the majority of college textbook stores in the US. Their ironclad contracts prohibit the promotion of content providers other than the lease company. Also, 11.5%-15% of every dollar spent in the leased stores goes into the general funds of the University. Who is going to make up for the hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars that will not pass through the backdoor funding of the University? Ultimately, the Kindle DX could lead to higher tuition when Bezo's gets the money not B&N and Follettes. But in my opinion the lease stores have been a blight on academia. it could not happen to a nicer group of people.
Who the fuck will pay $500 for that?
It should be $100 tops...even $100 is a ripoff.
There is absolutely no way to justify paying $500 for that.
Ugh, anybody who says they use a netbooks for reading has got to be lying. Laptops are just difficult in general to read books with any comfort. This thing is going to be great for school.
If you're still on the fence about buying a Kindle, think about the potential savings switching from print editions to electronic ones.
You can figure this out by going to http://www.shouldyoubuyabookreader.com/?s=b
Enter your public Amazon wishlist link, or your e-mail address, and this site will tell you how much you'll save.
I like the idea of a kindle for newspapers and I agree that having my textbooks on a device like that would have been perfect during college and law school. But, I would really like it if the display was in color, and you could get the full content of magazines. I subscribe to a lot of magazines, and often hate to throw them out,especially the cooking and art publications. But eventually you just run out of space. I would get all my magazines electronically if I could see the pictures in color and the layout was like the paper version. Amazon is on to something, but they still have a ways to go before they'll get my money.
AMazing, you cannot beat that for $489!
RT
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Like the tech but not the price?
pre-order a Kindle DX at 50% discount… $244.50
What a great idea!
Here's the site:
www.kindledxpromo.com
Yea...the next thing they'll come up with is a device that can hold thousands of songs so you don't have to carry CDs with you wherever you go and maybe even be able to download songs from the internet...
OH WAIT...Already there...
And iPODs are waaay to expensive and were a complete failure for Apple...Hmmmm...You can buy a lot of CDs at a garage sale for $200. :)
Mark my word...the Kindle will be EXTREMELY successful....
Some of you guys need to save your $500 and apply it towards a marketing course. Amazon is working the demand curve. Those of you who have never seen another tech product rollout during your entire lifetime can be pardoned for wondering why anyone would ever charge more for a product on its initial release than you personally would pay for it. The rest of you mystify me.
Please try to understand that Amazon does not view you as God, or even as a god, but simply a potential consumer. By choosing not to spend $500 for a Kindle DX at this time, you have communicated to Amazon that you are somewhere further down the demand curve and they would be well-advised to sell to other, non-you people. And there are many of us out here.
Once our demand is met, when surplus capacity exists at the $500 price point, Amazon will almost certainly walk the price back and start picking up the rest of you.
bigger come with higher price ??
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