Large Screen E-Readers Could Save Newspaper Industry

Larger screen Kindle may be coming this week
By Shane McGlaun - May 4, 2009

The print publishing industry is currently being hit with two very serious problems. The costs for printing and distributing print publications are soaring and at the same time, advertising revenue and subscriber rates are dropping. Some newspapers and print magazines simply won’t be able to survive in the current economy. One of the things being watched closely and hoped to be able to save the print publishing industry are large screen e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle 2 and others that are specifically designed to allow for reading digital versions of the print publications from newspaper and magazine publishers. Current e-readers like the Kindle 2 have screens that are too small to effectively display large magazine and newspaper pages with the same ads and format as a print version. That will reportedly change soon. As early as this week, the New York Times reports that Amazon is said to be launching a new larger screen Kindle device specifically for newspapers and magazines.

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