Amazon announces the Kindle DX, a new e-reader device allowing its users to access books, magazines, newspapers and textbooks with the touch of a button.

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“AT 9.7 inches the kindle dx display is two and half times the size of the kindle display.
Text and images are amazingly crisp on the spacious kindle dx screen. Which makes it easy to read charts tables and maps.” (Amazon)

The New York Times live blogged a press conference Wednesday where Amazon noted that in addition to the new device, the company has formed a partnership with textbook publishers that could change how college students get their books. The deal gives Amazon access to 60 percent of the textbook market.

The blog also reported Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ perspective: “We’re going to get students with smaller backpacks, less load.” (The New York Times)

The Daily Emerald brings a less enthusiastic view about this new approach to digital textbooks.

“A lot of college kids grew up primarily getting information through books…If that's how students are used to learning, a screen might not seem like the optimum format for engaging with text.” (The Daily Emerald)

Amazon is also making deals with newspapers. The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Washington Post are offering a reduced price on Kindle DX subscriptions with a longer commitment.  A San Francisco Gate blogger hopes this will be the answer print media have been searching for:

“I want to believe that newspapers can survive in the digital world. I've got a vested interest in that. But we've still got a long ways to go and a pricey dedicated reader alone won't change much, I fear...” (San Francisco Chronicle)

PCMag.com sees a bleak outlook for the news industry:

“Newspapers and magazines have dug their own graves by trying to simultaneously charge for content in one medium while offering all of that content for free in another medium.” (PC Magazine)

UK’s the Telegraph believes the problem is deeper than the delivery method.

“It's not the ‘paper’ part of newspaper that's the problem, it's the ‘news’. As in, newspapers are way too slow at delivering it in the age of the Internet. People are unsubscribing from newspapers because what's the point of reading something in print a day after you've read it online.” (Telegraph)