Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Amazon upgrades popular Kindle e-reader - CTV News

(SAN FRANCISCO-AFP) – U.S. online giant Amazon on Tuesday unveiled an improved version of its market-dominating Kindle e-reader.

The latest Kindle Paperwhite boasts higher contrast, speedier performance, and enhanced touch-screen technology.

“Kindle is the best-selling e-reader in the world for six years running,” said Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos.

“No one is investing on Behalf of readers or pushing the boundaries of hardware, software and content for readers like this team.”

A version of Paperwhite That connects to the Internet using Wi-Fi sell in Canada for $ 139 and will start shipping in early October. The 3G version goes for CDN $ 209.

Tablets designed Exclusively for digital books, magazines or newspapers are under pressure from Rivals That Go beyond reading material to game play, Internet browsing and more.

Amazon Kindles backs with a massive collection of digital works That Can Be Bought as well as a lending library for borrowing digital books.

The Seattle-based online retail titan overpriced Announced a Matchbook service thatgives Kindle book buyers the option of getting low-cost digital version of ink-and-paper Kindle editions They have Quantity.

Kindle Matchbook will launch in October with 10,000 titles, digital copies of Which will range in price from free to $ 3.

No comments:

Post a Comment