It’s for Textbooks

Amazon plans big screen Kindle: Textbook margins are the real aim not saving newspapers -from ZDnet

Editor in Chief of ZDNet, Larry Dignan convincingly writes that the new Big Screen Kindle’s are designed and marketed to serve the $8.6 Billion college textbook market.

It’s for Newspapers

Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to Help Save the Daily Press -from NYTimes

“…it is Amazon, maker of the Kindle, that appears to be first in line to try throwing an electronic life preserver to old-media companies.”

We don’t know who it’s for

Will Anybody Buy The New Large-Format Kindle? -from wired

Wired is owned by Conde Nast who is owned by Advance who owns many newspapers like the Staten Island Advance and Newark Star-Ledger so this is an interesting take on the situation.  Where’s the market demand?