Amazon's big-screen Kindle DX makes its debut

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the much-anticipated large-screen Kindle e-reader in a lecture hall Wednesday at the downtown Pace University. Called the Kindle DX, the new device is geared toward readers of personal and professional documents, newspapers, and magazines--and textbooks, a potentially huge target market.

The debut of the bigger Kindle wasn't exactly a secret: Rumors of a larger-screen Kindle had been around for quite some time, and concrete reports began to surface earlier this week.
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