Amazon Kindle E-Book Reader Launch (Live)

Jeff Bezos is about to launch the Kindle east - Quran reviewer at a hotel in NYC , and we ’re in there blogging live . Here ’s a gallery of Bezos plowing through twist features . Jump for the play - by - play .

10:23 – Bookmarks last page translate mechanically . If you want to clear memory space , you blue-pencil them off of your Kindle and in 60 arcsecond you may get them back again . ( So , 60 - second downloads . ) “ Disappears so you’re able to enter the author ’s reality . ” The End .

10:18 – Look at the store : your recommendations , national best seller list . corrupt something : scroll with your select wheel , prize statute title , pull up detail Thomas Nelson Page . What you would await with Amazon.com – get over artwork , editorial reviews . Print list cost $ 35 , Kindle price is $ 9.99 . get through on Buy . Says “ thank you for your purchase … you may carry on shopping while you are downloading . ” GREAT lineament : “ Purchsed by accident ? Cancel this order ”

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10:15 – Feature run through : font sizing change ; “ prime ” bike ; append high spot , annotation — all saved on server side so you never recede your annotations ; dictionary – depend up every word in the line , then you could select each give-and-take .

10:05 - 10:13 – telecasting : The publishing world bait around Kindle . Toni Morrison , Neil Gaiman and other notability say that they bang Amazon and the Kindle . Mostly promotional , but we have captured it in case there ’s anything exciting buried in there .

10:03 – There ’s a dictionary resident on every Kindle , the 8 - pound . Oxford American Dictionary on the 10 - oz . Kindle . “ With Kindle it ’s so friction - free to reckon up a word , I find my price reduction of what that watchword might mean has n’t been that precise . ” Wikipedia is the “ best encyclopaedia in the world ; ” you’re able to get at Wikipedia from the equipment .

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10:00 – Personal documents – Every Kindle has an vitamin E - mail address . Attach docs and east - mail them to your gadget . It ’s that simpleton .

9:55 – “ EV - DO , fast wireless applied science , it ’s broadband . extremely deploy . apply it while you move around . Everybody know when you utilize wireless cell networks , there ’s dumbfound ta be a data program , multiyear contract bridge , monthly bill — we did n’t like that either . We build Amazon Whispernet on top of Sprint ’s EV - DO meshwork . No data programme , no multiyear contract , no monthly bill — we give for all of that behind the panorama so you’re able to just record . ”

9:50 Soft pencil eraser back , full - length Thomas Nelson Page ferment , comfortable to hold , paper - like display , electronic ink . recharge is risky , so recollective battery life . No backlight . ( like Sony , Bezos says this is a good thing . )

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9:47 – “ I have dweeb certificate . ” ( And a freehanded crush on his simple school instructor Mrs. McInerny . ) But can you improve on something as well suited to its task as the book ?

1 . It has to fade off for the reader , like a script does , “ so you may participate the source ’s world . ”

2 . We can never outbook the record . We have to take modern technologies and do new things that the account book ca n’t do .

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9:45 – Bezos say why books are the last remaining analogue product : The format ( glue and newspaper publisher ) fades by , “ and what remains are the author ’s worlds , the generator ’s Scripture . I ’m a proofreader . ”

9:40 – Bezos on the leaf-book : “ Gutenberg would still recognize a modern - mean solar day record . ”

Though we ’ve already post therumorsand thenews , there ’s still a lot to screw about this mystery disruptor . The dudes behind me imagine it might have the most shock on publication since the internet , so stay tuned . [ Amazon Kindle Store ]

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