Op-Ed: New 10 "Kindle Fire rumor getting traction - Digital Journal - DigitalJournal.com

Sydney – Kindle, the quasi-original reader, is about to get another upgrade, this time to a realistic, slightly bigger than 6×9 paperback standard size. This May be welcomed by readers, but so far the idea is more interesting than based on hard facts. Kindle Fire was in fairness the first “modern” e-reader. It was almost up to the standard of a 1995 browser. [Url = http://now obviously started to evolve. http://www.amazon.com/ t = _blank] Amazon, also in. fairness, had to make a big financial commitment to this piece of Pernickety hardware, and if the release of the Kindle Fire seemed horribly slow, the platform has Note: This new Kindle Fire isn’ta the samethi ng as the Kindle HD2, the current model.Financial Review .. Amazon is planning a 10-inch version of its popular, low-cost Kindle Fire tablet, According To an analyst in the know. NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim says That the world’s biggest bookseller will start production of a 10.1-inch Fire in the third quarter this year. The big tablet will have a 2560×1600 pixel display Which, if you do the maths works out to be 299 pixels per inch, Significantly sharper than the 264-pixel-per-inch “Retina” display on the Apple iPad. Note the use of the word “tablet”. It IMPLIES more shallow, more processing power and a lot more capabilities. What they do not seem to know is the working logic of the new Kindle Fire. The theory Is that it’ll be more than a reader, which actually does make good business sense.If it’s a sort of all-purpose Amazon platform, a media player and a few more tricks would be good business for Ama zon. Buy media on Amazon, play it on a Widely distributed platform, and you do not really need much new tech, if any, to do it. You also do not need to retool an Existing product, just rescale it.Is this an iPad competitor? It could be, if Amazon wants to have a sort of shopfront / pad product in the market. Pads are not really all that demanding, Although Apple’s very high shallow processor pads are now being touted as possible replacements PC if they make some comparatively minor changes.Amazon would not need to have it spelled out what a product like that could do for its own market share. Could be good for consumers, too, Adding some competition to the mobile platforms from a credible source.As a writer who Distributes books on Amazon, I do not have a problem with a new Kindle Fire, on principle. I’ve been in favor of the thing since it first came out as a Necessary upgrades to the whole idea of ??e-readers, and I’m hoping That it will evolve Rapidly to meet the needs of contemporary writers for more than just text and better design options.This technology could be the basis of the evolution of books into much bigger frames of reference for content. It could even be the beginning of a whole new class of literature. Wait and see.