Amazon's New Kindle DX Unveiled

Amazon has officially pulled the curtain on the new Kindle DX - Amazon's larger screen addition to the Kindle E-Book Reader family. The new Kindle DX offers a massive selection of content with a large 9.7-inch electronic paper display, built-in PDF reader, auto-rotate capability, and storage for up to 3,500 books.

Kindle DX Larger Display
The Kindle DX has 2.5 times more surface area than its 'younger brother'. The larger electronic paper display with 16 shades of gray has more area for graphic-rich content such as professional and personal documents, newspapers and magazines, and textbooks. Kindle reads like printed words on paper because the screen works using real ink and doesnt use a backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other electronic displays.

Kindle DXs large display offers an enhanced reading experience with another category of graphic-rich contenttextbooks. With complex images, tables, charts, graphs, and equations, textbooks look best on a large display. Leading textbook publishers Cengage Learning, Pearson, and Wiley, together representing more than 60 percent of the U.S. higher education textbook market, will begin offering textbooks through the Kindle Store beginning this summer. Textbooks under the following brands will be available: Addison-Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, Longman & Prentice Hall (Pearson); Wadsworth, Brooks/Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Heinle, Schirmer, South-Western (Cengage); and Wiley  Higher Education.

New Built-in PDF Reader
Kindle DX features a built-in PDF reader using Adobe Reader Mobile technology for reading professional and personal documents. Like other types of documents on Kindle, customers simply email their PDF format documents to their Kindle email address or move them over using a USB connection. With a larger display and built-in PDF reader, Kindle DX customers can read professional and personal documents with more complex layouts without scrolling, panning, or zooming, and without re-flowing, which destroys the original structure of the document. Everything from annual reports with graphs to flight manuals with maps to musical scores can be viewed on a single, crisp screen with Kindle DX.

New Auto-Rotation
Kindle DXs display content auto-rotates so users can read in portrait or landscape mode, or flip the device to read with either hand. Simply turn Kindle DX and immediately see full-width landscape views of maps, graphs, tables, images, and Web pages.

The Kindle DX also has more memory, 3.3GB worth - to store up to 3,500 books. At just over a third of an inch thin, the Kindle DX is thinner than most magazines - which is pretty remarkable.

Availability and Pricing
The Kindle DX can be pre-ordered now with free shipping at Amazon.com for $489. Shipments will begin later this Summer.