Amazon’s Kindle stokes
interest
from papers as technology takes root
N&T Staff Report
Amazon.com’s Kindle has
sparked 11 U.S. and international dailies to offer their content to users of the
new digital reader.
Amazon in November introduced
the portable reader, which lets users wirelessly download newspapers as well as
books, blogs and magazines to a high-resolution electronic paper display.
Papers offering Kindle
subscriptions are the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington
Post, the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, Le Monde, Investor’s Business Daily,
San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
the Irish Times and Frankfurter Allgemeine.
Editions are automatically
delivered wirelessly to Kindle each night. Monthly subscription rates ranging
from $5.99 to $14.99.
Amazon is using E Ink Corp.’s
Vizplex Imaging Film in the new Kindle reader.
The Vizplex displays are
designed to offer contrast in both high and low lighting conditions and
registers an extremely low power consumption with up to 30 hours of reading with
a single battery charge.
The Kindle Store on Amazon’s
Web site offers more than 90,000 books as well as hundreds of magazines and
blogs.