Thread: New Kindle DX coming anytime soon?
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Old 08-30-2011, 04:51 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
I think the original plan for the DX line was to push school books for secondary and especially college classes and have a large screen on which to read them. However that plan was pretty much dead at birth.
The introductory price was very high and PDF support nowhere good enough for school textbook use.
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And with the current price of a Kindle DXG at $380 USD, and with their firmware at least half a generation behind the Kindle 3, I doubt they sell many of them.
It is currently #21 in electronics and, surprisingly, climbing.

The one day sale this past spring for $300 sent it to #3 in electronics.
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I suspect they might keep the current model for a while but I would be really surprised if they released an updated version.
Well, if they are waiting for increased sales before lowering the price and/or improving the software and/or hardware, we have a Catch 22 situation.

Maybe Havlon, Onyx, or Pocketbook will get their act together and there will be a decent large screen e-ink reader for PDF.
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