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.
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