Monday, August 25, 2008

Amazon launched student version of Kindle Reader

This IT news is provided from the SK Holdings Company Ltd

Seattle local media Seattle PI recently confirmed that Amazon said that they will soon launch a new version of Kindle e-book reader for college students.

According to foreign media reports, the U.S. textbook market, the current size of 5.5 billion U.S. dollars, most publishers have been introduced in the electronic version of the textbook. But after the market is not a suitable equipment to read electronic textbooks. Students will follow Kindle Kindle version of the usual large-screen style, become the electronic version of the pioneers of the textbook readers.

Since last November launched Kindle, the Amazon sales of the product has not been to be open. Technology blog site Techcrunch had expected its sales of up to the current 240,000. And Citigroup Investment Research analyst Mark Mahaney is expected, Kindle introduced in the first year sales of up to 38 of the End.


However, U.S. market research firm McAdams Wright Ragen recently disclosed that Amazon considered the forecast of Techcrunch and Citigroup as unreasonable, and totally inconsistent with the actual situation. It is learnt that Amazon has not yet disclosed specific sales situation, only said that the sales of Kindle is vert good, but have not yet reached the high expectations of analysts.

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