Which newspaper salvage a direct article which many missed?
So now we have a Kindle in large and extra large sizes but the response to the new device among journalists, especially those with hopes of magic bullet that will save newspapers, has been mostly small minded. A near universal chorus of doubt has greeted the new device. Much of it has good reason to be unimpressed. The Kindle DX doesn’t do much more than the original Kindle device but it comes at stiffer $489 price. That larger screen is a convenient fig leaf to cover a number of small sins. First, Amazon is using it and the greater memory to justify the bigger price. They’re also unveiling a “native PDF reader,” which should have been in the first version, because the screen can now handle the larger format layouts. Wednesday’s press conference was all about text books and newspapers — including a mysterious plan for The New York Times to subsidize devices in exchange for longer term subscription commitments. Somewhere in his content-free speech, Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger qual
