Amazon has just introduced the long-awaited third version of Digital Book. To promote this type of distribution in education and online press, the Kindle DX does not seem to convince the whole world.
While the successive models of electronic readers succeed without really hoped to be successful, Amazon has just introduced the third version of e-book, the Kindle DX designed to make us forget the flaws of previous and provide a more comfortable reading. The prestigious university Paca in Manhattan was chosen for a first demonstration orchestrated by Jeff Bezos himself, founder and boss of Amazon.
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Seven millimeters thick, big as a sheet of paper and looking like a notebook drive this amazing document, submitted by Plastic Logic, displays text, charts or PowerPoint presentations on a plastic screen. In short, it is an electronic book, but dedicated to the business world. This destination and its large display, thin and sensitive, clearly distinct from the current models.
At the conference DemoFall 08, San Diego, the company Plastic Logic has seemingly caused a sensation with a new model of electronic book (e-paper for some), which can be compared to the Sony Reader, the Cybook of Booken, the Microsoft Reader and the Amazon Kindle. They share a screen made of “electronic ink”, presenting a good contrast (black and white) and do not require energy to keep the information visible. Reading a text is comfortable and the text all the rest you want.
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