Op-Ed: New 10 "Kindle Fire rumor getting traction - Digital Journal - DigitalJournal.com

Sydney – Kindle, the original quasi-reader, is about to get another upgrade, this time to a realistic, slightly bigger than standard size 6×9 paperback. This may be welcomed by readers, but so far the idea is more interesting than based on hard facts.

Kindle Fire in fairness was the first “modern” e-reader. It was almost up to the standard of the 1995 browser. [Url = http://now obviously started to evolve. http://www.amazon.com/ t = _blank] Amazon, also in fairness, had to make a big financial commitment to this pernickety bit of hardware, and if the release of Kindle Fire Seemed horribly slow, the platform has Note: This new Kindle Fire is not The Same thing the HD2 the Kindle, the current model.Financial Review .. Amazon is planning a 10-inch version of its popular, low-cost Kindle Fire tablet, According to an analyst in the know. NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim says que the world’s biggest bookseller will start production of the 10.1-inch Fire in the third quarter this year. The big tablet will have a 2560×1600 pixel display Which, if you do the maths, works out to be 299 pixels per inch, Significantly sharper than the 264-pixel-per-inch “ Retina” display on the Apple iPad. Note the use of the word “tablet”. It Implies more grunt, more processor power and a lot more capabilities. What they do not seem to know is the working logic of the new Kindle Fire. The theory is que it’ll be more than a reader, Which actually does make good business sense.If it’s a sort of all-purpose Amazon platform, a media player and a few more tricks would be good business for Amazon. Buy on Amazon average, play it on the Widely distributed platform, and you do not really need much new tech, if any, to do it. Also you do not need to retool an existing product, just rescale it.Is this an iPad competitor? It could be, if Amazon wants to have a sort of shopfront / pad product in the market. Pads aren’t really all that demanding, although Apple’s very high processor grunt pads are now being touted the possible PC replacements if they make some comparatively minor changes.Amazon would not need to have it spelled in October what a product like that could do for its own market share. Could be good for Consumers, too, adding some competition to the mobile platforms from a credible source.As a writer who distributes books on Amazon, I do not have a problem with the new Kindle Fire, on principle. I’ve been in support of the thing since it first came out at the Necessary upgrade to the whole idea of ??e-readers, and I’m hoping it will que evolve rapidly to meet the needs of modern writers is more than just text and better design options.This Could Be The technology basis of the evolution of books into dousing frames of reference for content. It could even be the beginning of a whole new class of literature. Wait and see.