October 15th, 2012

Goodbye, Kindle DX, You Were Too Big For This World

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The Kindle DX (artist’s rendition shown here), Amazon’s 10-inch offering to the academic set, has been discontinued on the site and is only available from used dealers. Although there has been no official word concerning the DX, the product was reduced from $379 to $299 and the DX is currently out of stock on Amazon. → Read More

April 15th, 2011

CrunchDeals: $299 Kindle DX

I love my Kindle DX. After my dog Ferrari, it’s probably my favorite thing in the world and wouldn’t think of trading the big screen for increased portability found in the normal model. Today only you can score the latest generation with the really nice e-ink screen for only $299. That’s $80 off the standard price. It’s a good deal for sure and Amazon rarely puts their best… → Read More

July 1st, 2010

The Kindle DX, Now In Black — Like That Other Device We Shall Not Name

Amazon continues its revamping of the Kindle line. Fresh off of big price cuts for the traditional model, a roll-out of picture/video software for Apple devices, new social media features, and a new Android app, Amazon today announced a new version of its larger model of the Kindle: the DX. The key differences? It’s cheaper, sharper, and available in black (or as they call it, graphite). → Read More

July 1st, 2010

The Kindle DX, Now In Black — Like That Other Device We Shall Not Name

Amazon continues its revamping of the Kindle line. Fresh off of big price cuts for the traditional model, a roll-out of picture/video software for Apple devices, new social media features, and a new Android app, Amazon today announced a new version of its larger model of the Kindle: the DX. The key differences? It’s cheaper, sharper, and available in black (or as they call it, graphite).

The… → Read More

May 14th, 2010

Kindle DX failing out of Darden Business School

According to Ars Technica, Darden Business School students are unhappy with the Amazon Kindle DX in terms of academic usefulness. That’s not to say that they’re down on the DX in general: there’s pretty high support amongst Darden students for the DX as a personal e-reader. It’s just not quite the classroom supplement that Darden administration had hoped it would be. → Read More

January 11th, 2010

Blindness Organizations And ASU Settle Amazon Kindle DX Discrimination Suit

Amazon’s Kindle device sparked quite some controversy last year over its text-to-speech capabilities. The Authors Guild was up in arms over the feature, identifying it as a threat to audio book sales, and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and the American Council of the Blind (ACB) had some things to say about the Kindle, too.

In June 2009, NFB and ACB jointly filed a discrimination… → Read More

December 18th, 2009

The Kindle DX is out of stock at Amazon, ships in 4-6 weeks

Hoping to snag a Kindle DX as a last minute Christmas gift? Sorry, pal, you’re out of luck. The large-screen Kindle now has an estimated shipping date of 4 to 6 weeks according to its Amazon product page. It looks like ebook readers are the hot item this year, eh? → Read More

July 10th, 2009

Sheet music for the Kindle: I'm so getting Memories from Cats

Novato Music Press is now selling over 20,000 pieces of sheet music for the Kindle, allowing budding Rachmanonovs and Wiggles to download and play music right off of their DXen. The sheet music starts at $3. → Read More

June 12th, 2009

Review: Kindle DX

Another month, another version of the Kindle. I’ve been using a Kindle since it was shaped like a very thin doorstop and I’m delighted each time I see a new version. The latest version is the DX, a monstrous 9-inch version of the smaller Kindle 2 that supports direct PDF reading without conversion. Why am I interested in the Kindle? Well, I already have a first-gen Kindle so I’m… → Read More

June 11th, 2009

The Kindle DX gets torn apart

Okay, this is getting a old to us, but RapidRepair is at it again if gadget tear-downs are still your thing. This time around they are taking apart the very new Kindle DX right now and are posting pics as they go. It could be a great way to spend the rest of your day. → Read More

June 10th, 2009

Quick Look: The Kindle DX

The beautiful and attractive Kindle DX just arrived at Crunch HQ and sadly I was not there to greet it. Instead, we have this collection of unboxing photographs. We will have a full review on Friday, barring any unexpected prose accidents while trying to read Lovely Bones or the collected works of Karl Marx. Gallery after the jump. → Read More

June 1st, 2009

The Kindle DX gets a shipping date

Ready to spend $489 on a Kindle DX? Well, if you are, the large-screen Kindle will be available on June 10, 2009 with pre-orders shipping first. We’re still holding out for the Kindle 9 XXXD. → Read More

May 8th, 2009

Kindle can't say "Barack Obama"

Hay-ree-et Bee-char Sto-wee The Kindle 2 and the Kindle DX pronounces “Barack Obama” as “Bay-rack Oh-bamma,” slightly embarrassing for a device designed to display and read newspapers. An NYT story find this to be slightly funny but, as we all know, text-to-speech has been a fail party for years, no matter what the Authors Guild says. → Read More

May 7th, 2009

Saving print: Amazon demands 70 percent of newspaper's revenue for Kindle use

How is the Kindle DX going to save the newspaper industry when Amazon demands a whopping 70 percent of all revenue, plus the right to license that content (“the mayor said something important today at City Hall”) wherever it chooses? Such is the plight of the Dallas Morning News, and, presumably, other, smaller (compared to the New York Times, Washington Post, etc.) newspapers. → Read More

May 6th, 2009

Giveaway: Palate cleansing Nyko ChargeStation for the Wii

Whew. So all the DX nonsense is over. How about a little something to nosh? I have a Nyko ChargeStation for Wii in my office just waiting for a lucky commenter. I’ll pick one winner at random tomorrow at noon ET. UPDATE- Congrats to Goodo! Thanks for playing! → Read More

May 6th, 2009

Twitter reacts to Kindle DX news: Price is an issue

Yes, Amazon announced the Kindle DX today, and it’s just what we thought it’d be. What interests us here, though, is what does Twitter think about the news. (And as we all know, Twitter created Heaven and Earth, such is its importance.) → Read More

May 6th, 2009

Hands-on: Amazon Kindle DX [UPDATE]

It’s a madhouse here at Pace U., but I managed to grab a couple photos. Not my hands, but you can see how big this new DX really is. South Paws might feel like they’re being left out with only right-hand side controls, but you can flip the Kindle DX upside and it auto-rotates so the controls are on your left (upside down though). Oh, and Pace U. has been confirmed as the sixth… → Read More

May 6th, 2009

Prediction: What Kindle DX stories will appear today?

We were just going a little meta in the chatroom and Carlos Deleon pointed out that there would be a series of articles all appearing about the Kindle DX. They include, but are not limited to: 1. How the kindle will save print 2. How it won’t save print 3. Will students flock to kindle? 4. Something about the price – What is Amazon thinking! → Read More

May 6th, 2009

Kindle DX video demo

Here’s Amazon’s demo video of the Kindle DX in action for those of you who prefer a more passive ingestion of features and information than traditional reading provides. Amazon Kindle DX [Product Page] → Read More

May 6th, 2009

Amazon Kindle DX: 9.7-inch screen and $489

Amazon’s third incarnation of the Kindle is here, folks. All 9.7-inches of it. Specs and info leaked about the now official Kindle over the last week and they seemed pretty much dead on. It comes packing with the larger screen, auto-rotating screen, and finally supports PDF files fully with a native PDF reader. This larger Kindle also ups the storage capacity from 1,500 books on the Kindle 2… → Read More

May 6th, 2009

Happy Kindle DX Day: Liveblog at 10:30 ET

The Kindle DX will be launched today to an eager and excited cohort of folks who read the newspaper or enjoy textbooks. That’s right: Amazon’s 9.7-inch bigscreen Kindle drops today and our own Peter Ha will be on hand to relay all the goodness. Stay tuned. → Read More