Online giant Amazon has bigger plans for the Kindle. If the e-Book reader is going to change publishing forever, first thing it’s got to do is change itself… or just keep changing until publishing gets the drift and changes with you. The word is that it’s going to be a bigger screen Kindle. It’s a Kindle for other reading materials besides books: newspapers, magazines and even text books. Hopefully it may even be able to display architectural blueprints and original computer artwork. You get the idea. Big news organizations and the more important tech blogs have gotten invites for next week’s Amazon press event later this week.
Amazon’s intentions seems to be to move quickly before Hearst and Plastic Logic can make its own announcement on the same technology: the digital newspaper. Hearst has its own partnerships to combat Amazon, which has already partnered with publishing bigwigs like the New York Times. This is a fairly logical move to both big players since the world is running out of trees. I just hope the Amazon are Hearst-Plastic Logic electronic newspaper reader are going to be OLED.
[via engadget, electricpig; photo: nyt]
May 4th, 2009 at 8:25 am
“…since the world is running out of trees.”
that is the most BS line I’ve heard in a LONG time.
You’re going to make a claim like that, back it up with some documentation. Other than that, I am REALLY hoping that the Kindle goes big. That would just be awesome
May 4th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Will Kindle be a savior for newspapers? Maybe so. Kindle might be the product to finally get newspapers to realize they have to go digital. Read more at http://www.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com
May 5th, 2009 at 7:49 am
I second the BS line comment. There are more trees in North America today than there were during the time of the settlers. Check out http://www.bugwood.org/intensive/myths_and_facts_about_u_s__for.html (University of Georgia).
Back on topic — the larger Kindle sounds great to me, and I for one am tired of having a pile of newspapers to recycle each week. The key will be what major papers are available in the Kindle format. If the NYT isn’t there or WSJ, then count me out.
May 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
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October 20th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
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