The Amazon Kindle 6″ device is not only lighter than its predecessors but it’s also one of the lightest ebook readers you can find on the market and at an unbeatable price of $119, owning an ebook reader is no longer a matter of budget.

These are some of the improvements that the New Kindle Graphite brings

• High-Contrast E-Ink Screen , brand new technology – with a 50% better contrast
• No glare – Now you can use your Kindle everywhere
• Better Fonts – Just crisper, darker fonts and newer fonts
• Modern Design –  A lot smaller body (21% smaller) while keeping the same 6″ size screen
• 17% Lighter – Only 8.5 ounces, weighs a lot less than a paperback
• Unbelievable Long lasting Battery Life of Up to One Month – A single charge lasts up to one month (only if wireless is off)
• More e Storage – Double the storage to up to 3,500 Books
• Built-In Wi-Fi – as always you can Shop and download books in less than 60 seconds
• 20% Even Faster Page Turns – no wait until you can read the next page
• Better PDF Reader Compatibility –  Enhanced with dictionary lookup, notes, and highlights
• New WebKit-Based Browser – Now you can browse the web over Wi-Fi in black and white of course!!! (experimental)
• more…

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This is the list of countries where Amazon will be shipping the 6 inch screen version of Amazon Kindle, check the updated list in the official blog of Amazon Kindle here:

• Aland Islands
• Albania
• American Samoa
• Andorra
• Angola
• Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Armenia
• Aruba
• Australia
• Austria
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Benin
• Bermuda
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cape Verde
• Cayman Islands
• Central African Republic
• Colombia
• Comoros
• Congo
• Cook Islands
• Costa Rica
• Cote d’Ivoire
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Denmark
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Estonia
• Ethiopia
• Falkland Islands
• Faroe Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• French Guiana
• French Polynesia
• Gabon
• Georgia
• Germany
• Ghana
• Gibraltar
• Greece
• Greenland
• Grenada
• Guadeloupe
• Guam
• Guatemala
• Guernsey
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Holy See
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Ireland
• Italy
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Jersey
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Lao People’s Democratic Republic
• Latvia
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macao
• Macedonia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malta
• Marshall Islands
• Martinique
• Mauritius
• Mayotte
• Mexico
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Montserrat
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Nauru
• Nepal
• Netherlands Antilles
• Netherlands
• New Caledonia
• Nicaragua
• Niue
• Norfolk Island
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Norway
• Palau
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Puerto Rico
• Reunion
• Romania
• Russia
• Rwanda
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Solomon Islands
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sri Lanka
• Suriname
• Swaziland
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan
• Tanzania
• Timor-Leste
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• Uruguay
• Vanuatu
• Venezuela
• Viet Nam
• Virgin Islands, British
• Virgin Islands, U.S.
• Wallis and Futuna
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

The list adds up to 169 countries so the list of countries that won’t benefit from Amazon Kindle is actually much shorter.

Out of the 169 countries about a 100 of them also will benefit from the wireless capabilities of the Amazon Kindle

Ebooks are gaining on popularity

When a book goes on sale in two formats, paper and digital, 48% of Amazon’s North American buyers opt for the digital version. “Kindle has grown very rapidly,” said Bezos.

With this release of Amazon Kindle to the international market , competing with other offers Kindle electronic book such as Sony Ebook Reader Touch Edition or iRex iLiad Ebook reader, will be at an international scale. China Mobile has also announced its intention to market various types of electronic book.

In the U.S., the Amazon Kindle costs $ 279, after Amazon cut its initial price of $ 359  spurred by competition. The Sony Ebook Reader Touch Edition costs $299.  The Kindle DX Ebook Reader which is the big screen version , for e-journals is only sold in the US and it costs $ 489.

The catalog of English books available for Kindle recently reached the 200,000 titles. According to Amazon, this catalog will be adapted in each country where they’ll sell Kindle.

Forrester estimates that this year Kindle sales will reach the three million mark of electronic books sold in the world, a figure higher than its initial forecasts of two million.

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This slightly bigger than the normal Amazon Kindle (it’s 5.8 inches by 8.3 inches while the entire Kindle 2 measures 5.3 inches by 8 inches with a 6-inch screen) is also bundled with a bunch of PDA-like applications such as a calculator, contacts and scheduler.

But the biggest surprise is that this device comes with a touchscreen and no keyboard at all, only a stylus to work your way through the different menus. This device will also come in several different trendy colors.

Samsung Papyrus Release Date

The Samsung Papyrus ebook reader device was introduced to the public in January during CES, but it’s now doing it’s round in the different fairs and events in Europe with more and more details leaking to the public.

Samsung is aming to do a release of the Papyrus Ebook Reader in Korea in June, to later release it in the UK and then un the USA and the rest of the world

Preorder Samsung Papyrus

Since this device hasn’t been officially announced with a proper release date, Amazon is still not allowing preorders of the Samsung Papyrus, but you can check their Ebook Reader devices page to see when the start allowing preorders.

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Samsung Papyrus first Images

Here is a gallery of the first images released of the Samsung Papyrus.

A new version of the Amazon Kindle was announced recently, after the recent release of the popular ebook reader Amazon Kindle 2, a newer and improved version of the revolutionary Amazon Kindle. The Amazon Kindle DX is a bigger version of the Amazon Kindle 2, same features just more space to read.

Amazon Kindle DX features a screen 2,5 times the size of the it’s brother Amazon Kindle 2 and with it’s revolutionary E-Ink® electronic paper display and a resolution of 1200 x 824 pixel at 150 ppi and 16-level gray scale, this device won’t tire your eyes. It’s just like reading a paperback version of a book, though thinner and lighter.

Reading from Amazon Kindle DX means that you can flip through the pages of your book, have more than 3,500 at hand or read the latest newspapers and blogs in a just 18.9 ounces device that you can bring anywhere with you.

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Amazon Kindle DX Technical Details

Amazon Kindle DX Display: 9.7″ diagonal E-Ink® electronic paper display,

Resolution: 1200 x 824 pixel resolution at 150 ppi, 16-level gray scale.

Size : 10.4″ x 7.2″ x 0.38″.

Kindle DX Weight: 18.9 ounces.

Device Battery Life: Up to 4 days with wireless on, up to two weeks when wireless is off.

Accessories Included: Power adapter, USB 2.0 cable, battery. Leather book cover sold separately

System requirements: This device doesn’t require a computer.

Audio: 3.5mm stereo audio jack, built-in stereo speakers.

Amazon Kindle DX Capacity Storage: 4GB internal (approximately 3.3GB available for user content).

Amazon Kindle DX Charge Time: Fully charges in 4 hours and supports charging from computer via USB 2.0 cable.

Amazon Kindle DX Connectivity: EVDO modem with fallback to 1xRTT; utilizes Amazon Whispernet to provide U.S wireless coverage via Sprint’s 3G high-speed data network (check wireless coverage). See Wireless Terms and Conditions.

USB Port: USB 2.0 (micro-USB connector) for connecting to any windows or mac powered computer

Content document Formats that Amazon Kindle 2 supports: Kindle (AZW), PDF, TXT, Audible (formats 4, Audible Enhanced (AAX)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML, DOC, RTF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion.

Preorder Amazon Kindle DX HERE

These feaures make Amazon Kindle DX the best Ebook reader device on the market. Watch this Youtube video presentation of the New Amazon Kindle DX

Video presentation of the new Amazon Kindle 2 in youtube

Amazon Kindle 2 presentation

Amazon Kindle 2 Endurance test

For the moment, it is considered by experts publishers such as the iPod for books. Has begun to be sold only in the United States by Amazon, the online store that was introduced to the market, although its expansion will not be long. Nobody doubts that soon something similar, will reach the rest of the planet. To begin with, orders to 399-piece dollars (278 euros) – have been exhausted over the Internet. Meanwhile, in Spain, publishers, booksellers, distributors and writers are wondering: Are we ready for us Kindle?

It does not seem so. Vertigo, fear, ignorance, bewilderment is what produces more Kindle among those living in the book. No wonder. This invention, which measures 18 cm long by 13 wide and weighs 300 grams, is crazy to publishers, booksellers and writers, which in this case will be most benefited. In the guts of that space can fit up to 200 books. But users will have possibility to download, for now, 90,000 titles, plus access to newspapers around the world and blogs for all tastes.

But Kindle is that not only offers the advantages of a storage comparable to any library. Represents a new dimension in reading, with embedded dictionaries, as well as maps and street, not to mention the variable lighting of the screen and the possibility of adapting the bodies of letter to taste and sight of each other.

What many had feared, that is, a device that competes with the comfort and facilities practices of the book, begins to arrive and that not all letters of electronics manufacturers are dropped. “It remains to be seen what the launch of Apple and how to improve its bid for the Sony, the brand that has more invested in this field so far with the Sony Reader,” says Francisco Cuadrado, director general of Santillana. What is clear is that what comes out from now on will look like much to Kindle, say the experts. That is, that the invention represents a turning point in the history of the publishing market.

While some are hesitant to predict a future paradoxical. Optimistic and black at a time. With many more readers, but without bookstores. “I did I imagine a world without bookshelves,” said Santos Palazzi, head of the Mass Market area, the group Planeta. “It is beyond doubt that will affect the traditional market and that for the moment, live a coexistence of the two carriers, the digital and paper,” added Cuadrado. Even a classic publishing as Beatriz de Moura, owner of Tusquets, its future looks bleak. Although it refuses to go away thinking that these objects that has spent a lifetime: “I live these days with curiosity. There will be radical changes, although the book as such, has always found its way to survival,” he says. Until these booksellers are threatened: “Hard to imagine our role in a future without drama. We are very green in this matter,” says Fernando Valverde, president of the guild.

The first thing we supposed Kindle is another redistribution of the cake in the book. So far the percentages more or less clear. With its variations, the thing was as follows: 30% for the bookseller, distributor and publisher and 10% for the author. What percentage Kindled raze them all? It could eliminate all but those of the author. “It will be the most benefited from the distribution,” said Jose Antonio Millan, author of the blog The future of the book.

If a writer has a novel, hangs on his website and stay with what you want, who will discuss it? It’s what we have done to Radiohead with his latest album. The revolution brought by the digital age in the recording market may give clues. “We have the advantage of being able to learn from what happened in that field,” says Palazzi, Planeta.

The case is playing rethink the role of editor. And thoroughly. “They are a quality guarantee and will remain,” says Palazzi. His efforts to filter stand in the middle of that market hiperecléctico that lies ahead. “When detect items of interest, we will also continue to be useful,” says Square. Will become consultants as well. But the truth is that no one is going to need someone who is transformed into an object of the work. “There are modalities such as printing on demand, that is, get copies of anything in printing on demand or Internet sites where the authors publish their works,” says Square. This is the case of lulu.com or publishers who have come to be called vanity to have emerged in Argentina. “Even so, we need a stamp behind,” added the head of Santillana.

The promotion, marketing on the Internet will be key in the new era of publishing. “That will have to develop to the fullest,” and believe Palazzi Square. Like diversify the offer: “We will grow increasingly for smaller government,” added the second.

Cohabitation is, for now, inevitable. Especially with works of reference. “It presents an opportunity added to the market. If Amazon until now he has done has been to dispose of what we have stored, e-books will allow us to download catalogs,” says Riccardo Cavallero, managing director for Spain and Latin America Random House Mondadori.

In fact the major groups have already digitized all of its titles for what is to come. Each in its extent and not as Google is doing, for example, with an impressive project that aims at toppling the network all the books that exist. But the Italian publisher is optimistic not only in this area. In addition to what is the future of the traditional book. According to him, it will save fetishism. It will become an object of worship and more prestige. “The books are taught,” says Cavallero.

Also lump. And in a world of increasingly smaller spaces, to begin on objects in the houses. Many predict passage of a black future for manufacturers of shelves. Or to the players. According to Beatriz de Moura, intermediaries will be the first affected. “They are going to notice before the coup. They just need to anyone who placed their works,” believes the editor of Tusquets. Although the issue of copyright, with all the piracy that is on the network also will bring tail. There may be something to scratch in the future. “But it will be a thing of the publishers rather,” said De Moura.

On fetishism and collectors not everyone agrees. It may last for generations in these traditional readers. But the youngest … “appreciate the little object itself. They want everything to the voice of now. Immediately. Nor are they going to sign the books at the fair. Contact with the authors when they want it. And we can have even better before, the Internet, “says Square.

So some are imagining a future without book fairs such as Madrid, without signatures in the booths of the day. Teodoro Sacristan, director of the same, prefers not to think about it. “I do not want to imagine the scene, or what will be us,” he says.

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The On line shop Amazon, known for selling books and CDs over the Internet, has launched its first ‘e-book’, Amazon Kindle. A portable device on which you can download books, newspapers, blogs or access Wikipedia without cables and without having to synchronize with a computer.

Kindle has an electronic ink display of six inches and a resolution of 600 x 800 pixels. In addition, it plays a scale of four levels of gray. According to the company, reflects the letters as if it were paper and has no backlight, making it easy to read along with the possibility of expanding the size of the text.

“We’ve worked on Kindle for more than three years. Our goal is to design it disappears in your hands and you can enjoy reading,” says Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, who also emphasizes its wireless connectivity and that does not A computer for ‘loaded’ with new readings.

This system, called Amazon Whispernet, uses technology EVDO, a data transmission system for high-speed telephone networks. Thus, users can download new content Kindle without searching for a connection point and free, as Amazon pays the bill for her connection.

The funds in his shop are the major asset of the company to succeed his device in an area where other large, such as Sony or Microsoft, they have not come to fruition. Amazon has more than 90,000 titles and 100 ‘best sellers’ ready to be downloaded to 9.99 U.S. dollars, a price far lower than in the printed books. However, we must have the 399 U.S. dollars it costs to the device.

Moreover, as if it were a book on paper, it is possible to make notes in the margins and edit, remove or ‘draw’ these notes of the device. Even pages can be marked for use later. They also can store text documents, images and sound, at a price of 0.10 U.S. dollars each.
Not just books, also news

One of the strengths of this’ gadget ‘is that it also allows you to download newspapers, magazines and blogs to subscribers. From the retail store to browse Kindle may be as normal and choose from the newspapers as’ The New York Times’ or ‘Le Monde’, magazines like ‘TIME’ or blogs like ‘Boing Boing’. You can also access the ‘The News Oxford American Dictionary’ and Wikipedia.

The editions are updated automatically during the night, so that the user has them available when waking up. The daily press service costs between 5.99 and 14.99 U.S. dollars per month, the magazine between 1.25 and 3.49 U.S. dollars, and the blog-over 300 -, 0.99 U.S. dollars a month for subscription.

In Kindle’s memory you can store more than 200 titles (185 MB), but it is possible to extend it with SD memory cards. In addition, all books that are purchased will be ‘copied’ on Amazon.com’s user account, so it is always possible to retrieve them, since you can connect to a computer through its USB input.

The battery is another of its strengths, as it connected to the wireless network lasts a full day and, without doing so, more than a week. In addition, it is completely recharged in two hours, according to what Amazon says.

A device ready to use just out of the box. No need to install any software or perform a complicated configuration. High technology for the average user. The only question is whether the average user is willing to pay for things you can get free to turn the Amazon Kindle into the ‘iPod for books’.

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