Kindle DX Launches With Larger Display
Bezos emphasized the Kindle DX’s size as suitable for textbooks and other highly formatted books such as travel guides and cookbooks, newspapers, and personal and professional documents.
Further emphasizing Kindle's push into the textbook market, Bezos announced related partnerships with both textbook publishers and universities. Cengage Learning, Pearson and John Wiley & Sons (which together represent more than 60 percent of the U.S. higher-education textbook market, according to Bezos) will begin offering textbooks through the Kindle Store beginning this summer. Additionally, five universities—Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, Princeton University, Reed College and Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia—will launch trial programs this fall to make Kindle DX devices available to students.