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New Kindle DXs will be availablJune 17, the company said on its That could mean a rush for customers buyingh them for Father’s Day over the following weekend. Amazom designed the large-screen DX with newspapers and textbooksin mind. At nearly $500 a pop, it’s quitde an investment. But though the screen’ss still just black-and-white, and shows newspaper photographesin grayscale, some see it as a boost for a flounderingf newspaper industry. Customers can have their favoritesnewspapers “delivered” every morning to the sometimes for less moneyt than a traditional subscription thumped onto their porch.
The Kindle version of a newspape r hasno ads, whichj appeals to readers. Amazon splites revenue from the subscription with the media companty that producesthe newspaper. Recently a commuterr on San Francisco’s BART system, reading newspapers on her small-screej Kindle as the train raced underthe bay, told this reporteer she no longer subscribes to the San Franciscl Chronicle or the New York Timez , but gets them through her She also has an out-of-town paper, the Seattlee Times , delivered to the device — anothet benefit of electronic delivery.
Amazon (NASDAQ: has promoted the new Kindle widely, hoping to lock customers into its system before rival devices and programscome Already, savvy major newspaper have set up “apps” for ’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) making their sites easy to navigate and Both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal format their sites on the iPhonre with easy-to-read headlines and thumbnail photosx in a list. Both sites are free and supportedby ads. giant (NASDAQ: GOOG), which has its fingerse in a lotof pies, is rumoredr to be working on some kind of e-reader And Plastic Logic, based in the United is developing a flexible plastic screen for similard purposes.