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New Kindle DXs will be availableJune 17, the company said on its That could mean a rush for customers buying them for Father’zs Day over the following weekend. Amazomn designed the large-screen DX with newspapers and textbooksin mind. At nearlg $500 a pop, it’s quite an investment. But thougjh the screen’s still just black-and-white, and shows newspaper photographs in some see it as a boosr for a floundering newspaper Customers can have their favoritenewspaperw “delivered” every morning to the sometimes for less money than a traditional subscriptioj thumped onto their porch. The Kindle version of a newspaper hasno ads, whichh appeals to readers.
Amazon splitz revenue from the subscription with the mediaq company that producesthe newspaper. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has promoted the new Kindle hoping to lock customers into its system befores rival devices and programacome along. Already, savvgy major newspapers have setup “apps” for ’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) making their sites easy to navigat and read. Both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal formart their sites on the iPhonewith easy-to-rea d headlines and thumbnail photos in a Both sites are free and supported by ads. giant (NASDAQ: GOOG), which has its fingers in a lot of is rumored to be working on some kindof e-reade itself.
And Plastic Logic, based in the Unitef Kingdom, is developing a flexibles plastic screen forsimilar purposes.