Novato Music Press is now selling over 20,000 pieces of sheet music for the Kindle, allowing budding Rachmanonovs and Wiggles to download and play music right off of their DXen. The sheet music starts at $3.
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by John Biggs on July 10, 2009
by John Biggs on June 12, 2009
Another month, another version of the Kindle. I’ve been using a Kindle since it was shaped like a very thin doorstop and I’m delighted each time I see a new version. The latest version is the DX, a monstrous 9-inch version of the smaller Kindle 2 that supports direct PDF reading without conversion.
Why am I interested in the Kindle? Well, I already have a first-gen Kindle so I’m not too keen on upgrading immediately. But I’ve been waiting for Amazon to solve something with the Kindle DX that has been nagging me for quite a while. You see, I have a problem. I don’t want to read the New York Times on paper anymore but paper seems like the only logical way to read it. Reading the newspaper on a gadget is rude and dangerous – especially with toddlers around the house. It’s a tough sell to have a gadget at the breakfast table. But then I know that I’ll never read it on the desktop whether through the Times Reader or any other source. So the DX sounded great. I has all of the features of the current Kindle plus rotational sensing and a beautiful, huge screen that might just fit the entire NYT front page and not just one article. So that’s why I wanted to see the DX.
by Matt Burns on June 11, 2009
Okay, this is getting a old to us, but RapidRepair is at it again if gadget tear-downs are still your thing. This time around they are taking apart the very new Kindle DX right now and are posting pics as they go. It could be a great way to spend the rest of your day.
by John Biggs on June 10, 2009
The beautiful and attractive Kindle DX just arrived at Crunch HQ and sadly I was not there to greet it. Instead, we have this collection of unboxing photographs. We will have a full review on Friday, barring any unexpected prose accidents while trying to read Lovely Bones or the collected works of Karl Marx. Gallery after the jump.
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by Matt Burns on June 1, 2009
Ready to spend $489 on a Kindle DX? Well, if you are, the large-screen Kindle will be available on June 10, 2009 with pre-orders shipping first. We’re still holding out for the Kindle 9 XXXD.
by John Biggs on May 8, 2009
Hay-ree-et Bee-char Sto-wee
The Kindle 2 and the Kindle DX pronounces “Barack Obama” as “Bay-rack Oh-bamma,” slightly embarrassing for a device designed to display and read newspapers. An NYT story find this to be slightly funny but, as we all know, text-to-speech has been a fail party for years, no matter what the Authors Guild says.
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by Nicholas Deleon on May 7, 2009
How is the Kindle DX going to save the newspaper industry when Amazon demands a whopping 70 percent of all revenue, plus the right to license that content (“the mayor said something important today at City Hall”) wherever it chooses? Such is the plight of the Dallas Morning News, and, presumably, other, smaller (compared to the New York Times, Washington Post, etc.) newspapers.
by MG Siegler on May 6, 2009
On January 23, Amazon secured the domain kindledx.com, anticipating the launch of its new product today, the Kindle DX. Given all the hoopla surrounding today’s event, you’d think Amazon would have thought to point the domain to the Kindle DX pre-order page — or at the very least, to the Kindle page, or even any page whatsoever. Instead, it’s a dead link.
Amazon, which also owns kindle.com, points that domain to the page where you can buy the Kindle. I’m sure Amazon will eventually get around to doing it with its new product, but it may have been wise to do it on a day when the hype and demand are at their peak.
by John Biggs on May 6, 2009
Whew. So all the DX nonsense is over. How about a little something to nosh? I have a Nyko ChargeStation for Wii in my office just waiting for a lucky commenter. I’ll pick one winner at random tomorrow at noon ET.
UPDATE- Congrats to Goodo! Thanks for playing!
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by Nicholas Deleon on May 6, 2009
Yes, Amazon announced the Kindle DX today, and it’s just what we thought it’d be. What interests us here, though, is what does Twitter think about the news. (And as we all know, Twitter created Heaven and Earth, such is its importance.)
by Peter Ha on May 6, 2009
It’s a madhouse here at Pace U., but I managed to grab a couple photos. Not my hands, but you can see how big this new DX really is.
South Paws might feel like they’re being left out with only right-hand side controls, but you can flip the Kindle DX upside and it auto-rotates so the controls are on your left (upside down though).
Oh, and Pace U. has been confirmed as the sixth University for the pilot program.
Update: Couple more images after the jump. We’ll have video in little bit as well.
UPDATE – Rotation video in place.
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by John Biggs on May 6, 2009
We were just going a little meta in the chatroom and Carlos Deleon pointed out that there would be a series of articles all appearing about the Kindle DX. They include, but are not limited to:
1. How the kindle will save print
2. How it won’t save print
3. Will students flock to kindle?
4. Something about the price – What is Amazon thinking!
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by Doug Aamoth on May 6, 2009
Here’s Amazon’s demo video of the Kindle DX in action for those of you who prefer a more passive ingestion of features and information than traditional reading provides.
Amazon Kindle DX [Product Page]
by Matt Burns on May 6, 2009
Amazon’s third incarnation of the Kindle is here, folks. All 9.7-inches of it. Specs and info leaked about the now official Kindle over the last week and they seemed pretty much dead on. It comes packing with the larger screen, auto-rotating screen, and finally supports PDF files fully with a native PDF reader. This larger Kindle also ups the storage capacity from 1,500 books on the Kindle 2 to 3,500 on the Kindle DX thanks to 3.3GB of on board memory. The pre-order is up now and will ship shortly if you’re willing to drop $489 on one.
More pics and info after the jump.
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by John Biggs on May 6, 2009
The Kindle DX will be launched today to an eager and excited cohort of folks who read the newspaper or enjoy textbooks. That’s right: Amazon’s 9.7-inch bigscreen Kindle drops today and our own Peter Ha will be on hand to relay all the goodness. Stay tuned.
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