NYT: Big-screen Kindle coming from Amazon "as early as this week"
Engadget — Go ahead and grab the salt shaker, 'cause this one's nowhere near carved in stone... or is it? A breaking report from The New York Times has it that Amazon will introduce a larger version of its Kindle e-reader "as early as this week," one that's tailored for "displaying newspapers, magazines and perhaps textbooks." If ...

Larger Kindle coming this week? Competition for Apple's Tablet? (Update: Wednesday)
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — According to the New York Times, Amazon is going to release a bigger version of the Kindle soon, possibly as early as this week.  The device will be aimed at newspapers and large format magazines who have been hit extremely hard by ad spending downturns.  Although the current Kindle has a 6" screen, users and companies are said to have been left wanting for more screen real estate...for content and ads.  The WSJ also reported on this earlier. Also, keep in mind that Apple's rumored netbook/tablet touch screen is 10 inches.  The Times expects there to be some overlap. Update: It ...

Coming This Week: A Giant Kindle?
Technologizer — [UPDATE: Amazon's announcing something on Monday--it's sent out invites to journalists for a press event in New York.] The New York Times is reporting that Amazon.com is about to introduce a larger-screen version of its Kindle e-reader, tailored for magazines, newspapers, and, possibly, textbooks. If so, it would be an early ...

NYT: Big-screen Kindle ready, maybe announced this week
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... An Amazon spokesman would not comment, but some news organizations, including The New York Times, are expected to be involved in the introduction of the device, according to people briefed on the plans. A spokeswoman for The Times, Catherine J. Mathis, said she could not comment on the company's relationship with Amazon. I love how this hamfisted, parsing disclaimer comes across as Stone screaming at the top of his lungs: "HINT, HINT!" Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to Help Save the Daily Press [NYT]

Rumors abound that Amazon is to supersize Kindle for newspapers
DVICE Atom Feed — ... Roger Fidler, program director for digital publishing at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He went on to add, however, that the changeover might be long and protracted. "If these devices had been ready for the general consumer market five years ago, we probably could have taken advantage of them quickly. Now the earliest we might see large-scale consumer adoption is next year, and unlike the iPod it's going to be a slower process migrating people from print to the device." New York Times Via WSJ Via Engadget

Otra generación de Amazon Kindle podría estar disponible en breve
Gizmología — Según el New York Times, comentan que un nuevo Amazon Kindle podría estar disponible esta misma semana, sí, solo tres meses del lanzamiento oficial del Kindle 2 se esta rumoreando con una actualización. En concreto el NYTimes comenta que puede ser un Kindle más grande, suponemos que todo “culpa” de una pantalla de mayor tamaño que las actuales y generosas seis pulgadas. Vía: BoingBoing Comparte esta anotación ...

NYT: Amazon Debuting Jumbo Kindle 'As Early as This Week' (Updated) [Rumor]
Gizmodo — The Kindle 2 may only be a few months old, but the New York Times reports that Amazon is set to unveil a big-screen E ink reader, designed for newspapers, magazines and textbooks. Soon! UPDATED The idea of a larger, newspaper-oriented reader (including a Kindle) has been floated before, most publicly by Hearst, who proposed a 8.5x11-inch reader in February. This report revisits that plan, pegging Plastic Logic as the manufacturer of the device. But that stuff is decidedly future tense ("by the end of the year"), and digital ...

Buffett Says He Wouldn't Buy Another Newspaper "At Any Price"
Silicon Alley Insider — The EU wants Internet governance to be less US-centric [Reuters] MySpace needs a makeover [NYT] Buffett says he wouldn't buy another newspaper "at any price." [Reuters] Amazon will introduce a larger Kindle for magazines, text books and newspapers "as early as this week" [NYT] Larry Page to graduates: "It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. You have little competition.” [Google Blogoscoped] Join the conversation about this story » ...

Big-Screen Kindle Coming Wednesday
Silicon Alley Insider — Amazon (AMZN) will likely unveil a large-screen version of its Kindle e-book reader -- designed for reading newspapers and magazines electronically -- on Wednesday. The company has scheduled a press conference at Pace University in New York that morning. The idea is that the current Kindle 2 is fine for reading novels, but a bigger screen could help with papers, periodicals, and things like university course packs. That's true, but only for some magazines. Anything with glossy photo spreads, for instance, still begs for a vivid, color screen, which Amazon probably won't include in this edition. The other problem: As MediaMemo's Peter Kafka notes, no matter ...

Amazon new Kindle to be announced
SolSie.com — Amazon new Kindle to be announced [image] Amazon has sent out an invitation for a press conference that will take place this Wednesday at 10.30am ET at Pace University in New York City. Apparently this event coincides with an earlier rumor issued by the New York Times that Amazon is poised to launch a new hardware for for viewing newspapers, magazines and “perhaps textbooks”, and possibly with larger format. [image] Leave a comment Name (required) E-mail (required) URI Your Comment Notify me of followup comments via e-mail

Wider-Screen Kindle Coming Wednesday [Amazon Kindle]
Lifehacker — [image] It went from a New York Times murmur on Sunday to a press release and 99% confirmation this morning: Amazon will be rolling out a bigger, wider Kindle Reader, supposedly tailored for easier newspaper and magazine reading. The announcement comes Wednesday, most likely, but the question is whether more screen space would make readers more likely to subscribe to the Times, the Journal, and other publications. So let's hear it, dear readers would a wider-screen Kindle make you more likely to pay actual money for digital reading? [Image and links via ...

Amazon’s got a giant Kindle secret?  It’s free (rumor)
Gadgetell — Section: Communications, Mobile, Computers, Mobile Computers, Gadgets / Other, Green, Lifestyle Today, Amazon delivered invites to an event being held at the New York Times former headquarters in the City.  Amazon doesn’t hold a lot of these, so speculation is something new is coming.  This new ...

Report: Amazon Will Introduce A Big-Screen Kindle This Week
paidContent — ... Updated: A big-screen Kindle may be coming to the market sooner than anybody expected. The New York Times reports that a larger version of Amazon.com's e-reader could be introduced as soon as this week, optimized for newspapers, magazines and possibly textbooks. And the paper should know: the story says it is expected to be one of the news organizations involved in the device's debut. ...

Possible Jumbo Kindle Coming Wednesday: Print Media Savior?
Today @ PC World — Amazon plans to introduce a new, larger version of its e-book reader Kindle as early as this Wednesday according to reports. The new device will be aimed as an alternative to physical newspapers and magazines in a bid to salvage the dying print media. Jumbo Kindle Coming Wednesday? The New York Times reports that Amazon is the first in line to try and revive the old-media companies by launching a large-screen Kindle especially designed to display newspapers, magazines and textbooks as well. It's not often the NYT gets involved into rumors, but the paper says the giant Kindle could be launched this week. Interestingly enough, NYT seems to have gotten this rumor ...

Report: Amazon prepping big-screen Kindle [Updated]
TechBlog — Linkpost | 5.4.2009 | Main May 04, 2009 Report: Amazon prepping big-screen Kindle [Updated] Print publishers have been drooling over the prospect of larger e-book readers, seeing in them an opportunity to shoehorn the traditional magazine or newspaper into a new, electronic form factor. According to the New York Times, their dreams may come true this week : Unlike tiny mobile phones and devices like the Kindle that are made to display text from books, these new gadgets, with screens roughly the size of a standard sheet of paper, could present much of the editorial and advertising content of traditional periodicals in generally the same format as they ...

Amazon's Big-Screen Kindle 3 Due This Week
Fast Company - Technology — A long-predicted update to the Amazon Kindle, with the key feature being a significantly larger screen, is due as soon as this Wednesday. The hottest discussions center on how Amazon's Kindle 3 could help boost sales of newspapers. Amazon is holding a press conference on Wednesday morning in New York City, but no exact details on what they plan to announce are available. A story by The New York Times writer Brad Stone, about "big screen" e-readers in general, says that, "Amazon will introduce a larger version of its Kindle wireless device tailored for displaying newspapers, magazines and perhaps textbooks." Stone then drives the point ...

Around the Web 5.4.09: Big-screen Kindle, turnover at Valleywag, BlackBerry Curve dominance
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... -- Can Kindle save the newspaper industry? A big-screen version of the device, designed for newspapers, magazines and textbooks, is reportedly due out Wednesday. NYT via ...

On the plus side, the E-Ink won’t get all over your fingers
GMSV — As yet another big U.S. newspaper teeters on the brink of extinction , some in the industry think salvation may lie in a new class of portable reading gadgets , and Amazon appears poised to unveil the first of the contenders this week . Amazon has scheduled a press event Wednesday in New York at which it is expected to introduce a larger-format version of its Kindle e-reader tailored for displaying newspapers, magazines and textbooks. Almost 60 periodicals are already available by subscription on the current Kindle, but the premise is that a ...

Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
Valleywag — Terminal patients often suffer colorful delusions. But none is as cruel as the fantasy Amazon.com has kindled among dying ink-stained wretches, who believe a magical electronic reading device will cure what ails magazines and newspapers. Did we say "kindled"? Amazon's Kindle, the e-book reader, has indeed sparked fever dreams among the ailing lords of print. The New York Times has paused from chronicling its own doom to contemplate its salvation — a large-format Kindle, better suited to displaying newspaper-like pages. Hearst, News Corp., and other print-media concerns are pushing their own devices, loath to grant Amazon so ...

Amazon to introduce "big screen" Kindle device this week
AppleInsider — ... screen fitted for presentation of newspapers, magazines and textbooks in a more traditional format, according to reports. The big-box retailer and online bookseller on Monday began issuing to members of the media invitations to a special press conference this Wednesday, May 6th at 10:30 a.m. that will take place at Pace University in Manhattan. These invites arrived just hours after a report in the New York Times cited people briefed on Amazon's plans as saying the retailer was gearing up to introduce "a larger version of its Kindle wireless device tailored for ...

Amazon to Reveal Big-Screen Kindle Wednesday?
Switched — Amazon made us wait for over a year between the Kindle and the updated Kindle 2.0. But a scant three months after the unveiling of the newer e-reader, online rumors are already saying that we may see a bigger-screen Kindle as soon as this week. Amazon has begun to send out invitations to a press event, scheduled for this ...

The Big-Screen Kindle: It's About Textbooks, Not Saving the Newspapers
ReadWriteWeb — According to a number of well-substantiated rumors, Amazon is set to debut a new, large-screen version of its Kindle eBook reader on Wednesday morning during a press conference at Pace University in New York City. A lot of the current discussion around this announcement has focused on how a new Kindle might or might not be able to save the ailing newspaper industry, but in many respects, it seems more likely that Amazon is simply planning to turn Kindle into a better platform for electronic textbooks. Sponsor Textbooks In some respects, though, the new Kindle (which will, after all, see its debut at a ...

Kindle For Newspapers Being Announced This Week?
Gearlog — ... The rumored device will have a larger screen than the current Kindle--with dimensions closer to that of a standard newspaper. The Kindle will theoretically offer newspapers a way to charge for content--something they've largely had difficulty doing over the Web. Among the papers expected to be involved with the deal is The New York Times, which also broke the story, ...

Is a larger Kindle, for reading newspapers, on the way?
Amazon & the online retail blog — ... at its last New York event, and that fact is fueling speculation that a larger, newspaper-type device will be announced this week. The New York Times reported Sunday that Amazon will introduce the larger version Kindle this week, citing "people briefed on the online retailer's plans." The report adds that news organizations including the Times "are expected to be involved in the introduction of the device." ...

Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
Gawker: Valleywag — ... Did we say "kindled"? Amazon's Kindle, the e-book reader, has indeed sparked fever dreams among the ailing lords of print. The New York Times has paused from chronicling its own doom to contemplate its salvation — a large-format Kindle, better suited to displaying newspaper-like pages. Hearst, ...

Amazon readies bigger Kindle for news and textbooks
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Amazon is preparing to launch a new, big-screen version of its Kindle e-book reader - just three months after it for releasing the second generation of the gadget. The new Kindle, which is due to be introduced at a press conference in New York on Wednesday, is set to supplement the existing model by providing a larger screen that can more easily display ...

Amazon: King-Size Kindle Coming This Week?
WSJ.com: Tech Trader Daily — Amazon.com (AMZN) this week is expected to unveil a new, larger-version of the Kindle, this time targeted at newspaper and magazine readers. AllThingsD noted earlier today that Amazon has sent out invitations to a press event to be held Wednesday at Pace University in lower Manhattan. In a feature story on the potential for e-reader devices to save the newspaper industry, The New York Times this morning said that some news organizations, including the Times, are expected to be included as part of the introduction of the new gizmo. The Wall Street Journal reported on plans for the larger size Kindle ...

Why the Kindle HD Can’t Save Newspapers [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Amazon will reportedly introduce a new Kindle later this week, one with a big screen. Let’s give it a cute name, like the Kindle HD. And because it’s got a big screen and because it counts The New York Times among its launch partners, many of my fellow bloggers have decided that it ...

Daily Tech: The BB Curve Surpasses the iPhone in US Sales
GeekSugar — RIM's BlackBerry Curve 83XX series smartphone overtook Apple's iPhone 3G in sales in the first quarter of 2009. Third and fourth place go to the BlackBerry Storm and the BlackBerry Pearl. - Engadget Amazon is gearing up to announce a larger-screened Kindle this Wednesday, which will be perfect for reading ...

Large-Screen Kindle Won’t Mean Squat if Apple Tablet Arrives
Wired: Gadget Lab — Amazon is almost certain to announce a large-screen Kindle on Wednesday. In the world of e-book readers, that’s huge. But if Apple fulfills expectations and releases a tablet-style computer later this year, it’s going to render the Kindle — no matter what screen size — almost instantly moot. Amazon’s Kindle is far and away the most popular e-book reader; Amazon probably sold half a million last year and may sell a million Kindle 2’s this year. Yet the Kindle’s 6-inch screen, while impressively readable and crisp, is only slightly larger than a 3″ x 5″ index card. ...