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The new Kindle DXs, made by Mass.-based Corp., will be available June 17, the compan y said on Amazon's site. That could mean a rush for customerss buying themfor Father’ s Day over the following Earlier this month, E Ink agreed to a $215 million buyoutg by Taiwan’s Prime View International. Amazon designes the large-screen DX with magazines, newspapers and textbooks in mind. At nearlh $500 a pop, it’s quite an But though the screen’s still just black-and-white, and showd newspaper photographsin grayscale, some see it as a boosf for a floundering newspaper industry.
Customersa can have their favoritenewspaperws “delivered” every morning to the device, sometimes for less money than a traditionak subscription thumped onto their The Kindle version of a newspaper has no ads, whicjh appeals to readers. Amazon splits revenue from the subscription with the mediwa company that producesthe newspaper. Recentlh a commuter on San Francisco’s BART system, reading newspapers on her small-screeh Kindle as the train raced underthe bay, told this reportefr she no longer subscribes to the San Francisco Chroniclde or the New York Times , but gets them throughy her Kindle.
She also has an out-of-towh paper, the Seattle Times , delivered to the devicer — another benefit of electronic delivery. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has promoted the new Kindl e widely, hoping to lock customers into its systenm before rival devices and programacome along. Already, savvy major newspaperws have setup “apps” for ’sz (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, making their sites easy to navigate and Both the New York Time s and Wall Street Journal format their sites on the iPhonr with easy-to-read headlines and thumbnaill photos in a list. Both sites are free and supportecdby ads.
Meanwhile, giant GOOG), which has its fingers in a lot of is rumored to be working on some kindof e-readetr itself. And Plastic Logic, baser in the United Kingdom, is developing a flexible plastic screem forsimilar purposes.