(2009-05-07) Big Kindle Dx Announced

A 9.7in EInk Kindle was announced today, for summer delivery for $489.

The New York Times Company (Ny Times) and Washington Post Company are launching pilots with Kindle DX this summer. The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post will offer the Kindle DX at a reduced price to readers who live in areas where home-delivery is not available and who sign up for a long-term subscription to the Kindle edition of the Newspaper-s. I wonder what price those subscriptions will be?

Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, Princeton University, Reed College, and Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia will launch trial programs to make Kindle DX devices available to students this fall. The schools will distribute hundreds of Kindle DX devices to students spread across a broad range of academic disciplines. In addition to reading on a considerably larger screen, students will be able to take advantage of popular Kindle features such as the ability to take notes and highlight, search across their library, look up words in a built-in dictionary, and carry all of their books in a lightweight device. Hmm, I'm not sure I like this as Educational Technology, because it's too weak as a content-creation device (Constructionism). I want students building more stuff, not just Highlighting And Annotating.

Update: the support for PDF files is apparently pretty weak.