| So in February Amazon finally introduced their | | | | see why this digital ebook reader is no simple |
| Revolutionary Wireless Reading Device, an | | | | story book reader and is often referred to as the |
| improved version of the surprisingly popular Kindle | | | | revolutionary wireless reading device. |
| digital ebook reader with extra and improved | | | | At the the new Kindle digital eBook readers |
| features like a far thinner design, upgraded | | | | launch, Jeff Bezos, founder and C.E.O of Amazon, |
| battery with longer use between charges and | | | | said "The new Kindle digital book readers are |
| expanded memory capability making it more than | | | | everything customers tell us they love about the |
| just any old story book reader. | | | | original Kindle digital ebook readers, but thinner, |
| The online retailer, based in Seattle, decided to | | | | faster, crisper, with longer battery life, and |
| release the new Kindle digital ebook reader with | | | | capable of holding hundreds more books." |
| the same price tag of $359 as their original story | | | | "If you feel the need, the Kindle digital ebook |
| book reader. A smart move as the two versions | | | | reader can now even read for you -- a new |
| of digital book readers are chalk and cheese and | | | | feature we have included and something that a |
| the price point offers great value to purchasers | | | | book could never do," he added. |
| of the vastly improved new digital ebook reader. | | | | When they launched the new Kindle eBook |
| Measuring in at a meagre 0.36 inches thin, that's | | | | Reader, the company informed the press that the |
| just 9 millimeters for the converted, the new | | | | U.S. writer of horror novels, Stephen King, would |
| Kindle digital ebook reader is only half the | | | | be releasing a novella, "Ur", that would only be |
| thickness of the old version and weighs in lighter | | | | available to read via the new Kindle Digital eBook |
| than your normal paperback book, making it ideal | | | | Reader. Industry analysts have predicted that this |
| for carrying around with you when on the move. | | | | will become the trend in future as the industry |
| The battery has undergone an upgrade, resulting | | | | starts to embrace this new media. |
| in a charge life 25% longer than the original Kindle, | | | | As a foot note, the first Kindle digital eBook |
| so now users of Digital Book Readers can expect | | | | reader was launched in November 2007, and |
| to read for four or five days from one single | | | | although it ammounted to little more than a story |
| re-charge with the wireless facility enabled and | | | | book reader, it proved to be very popular with |
| with wireless turned off the battery charge will | | | | the American public. Just how popular we may |
| last a staggering two weeks. | | | | never exactly know as Amazon has never |
| The improved memory capacity of 2 gig gives | | | | released any sales figures, but some analysts |
| the Kindle digital ebook reader the ability to store | | | | have guesstimated that in 2008 alone, Amazon |
| in excess of 1,500 full length novels, this | | | | sold in the region of 500,000 of these Kindle |
| compares with only 200 the first Kindle ebook | | | | Digital Book Readers, which if correct is a figure |
| readers was able to hold. | | | | far higher than expected. |
| The Kindle Digital eBook Reader now gives users | | | | With the vastly improved New Kindle Digital |
| a read to me capability that converts the text on | | | | eBook Reader, now let loose on the market, |
| the novel's pages into spoken words for them to | | | | expect the Kindle Digital Book Readers sales |
| listen to. Not only that, they can decide if they | | | | figures to explode as this little beauty is not just a |
| want to be read to by a man or a woman. In | | | | Story Book Reader but a fully fledged |
| addition to that, they can also alter speed settings | | | | revolutionary wireless reading device. |
| to suit their preferred listening style. You can now | | | | |