Black Friday Week Deal - Kindle DX Graphite 9.7" $259

THE 9.7" KINDLE DX DEAL FOR NOV.24-28

This is normally $379, so it's a $120 savings.  It's a favorite of some of us who use it for PDFs and books with complex illustrations with small print.  It uses the same Pearl screen as the Kindle 3 and Kindle Touch but my entire Kindle 3 fits into the screen area of the DX, so it's easier on the eyes, though obviously it'll weigh more.

  It has NO WiFi capability and uses only 3G (Cellular network access), with which you can download books just about anywhere without looking for a WiFi spot -- and the experimental web browser through that 3G capability is still usable, free, for U.S. citizens and customers in about 61 countries, which Amazon UK lists and I reference at this page, which has more information and the link to the Amazon UK table.

  With a discount this big, I don't know what the future of this particular model is, but many of us have depended on it for comfortable e-Ink reading of PDFs (which can be fully rotated and zoomed using rectangular areas).

  Here are working images of my own DX (I had the DX US only and now have the DX Graphite US/Int'l).

Reaction to DX Graphite by tougher MobileRead forum's Sony stalwarts at time of release last August.


Kindle DailyDeal
While I'm at it, here's today's Kindle Daily Deal book
  Raising Jake, by Charlie Carillo, 139 customer reviews, 4.5 stars
  Wednesday's price: $8.69,  Thursday's discount: $7.70
  Thursday's Kindle Daily Deal Price: $0.99 (89% off)
"...In this coming-of-age tale, there's often a question of who is parenting whom.  Carillo, a former reporter for the New York Post, has an easy way with breezy prose and likable characters." -- Publishers Weekly


If books won't do it, a more general special Amazon has is their Holiday Toy List through Dec. 24.

Black Kindle DX? Also, DOJ Apple Anti-Trust Inquiry and tactics examined

A BLACK KINDLE DX?
A rather weak rumor based on a very fuzzy photograph has it that Amazon may be planning to unveil a Kindle DX with a black bezel.  It's hard to imagine that the photograph shows this but the configuration is somewhat similar except that the bottom keyboard area looks raised.

The Kindle has become a generic word so that I've seen people talking about buying a "Sony type of Kindle."

In a forum thread this week, several Kindle owners reported being asked if the Kindle each had been reading was an iPad.  All these strange devices can look alike for people new to the portable e-reader market.  The device, whatever it is, was being photographed with a very costly camera, at a coffee shop in Seattle. Yes, that's not a strong indicator.  But the CrunchGear writer, Devin Coldewey, wrote in the comments area that the tipster was told that Amazon was shooting video.  Another commenter felt it was thicker looking.  I agree, although that could be from shadows.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE EXAMINES APPLE'S TACTICS
The New York Times Brad Stone reports on the anti-trust inquiry by the DOJ into Apple's "allegations that Apple used its dominant market position to persuade music labels to refuse to give the online retailer Amazon.com exclusive access to music about to be released. "

' Billboard magazine reported that representatives of Apple’s iTunes music service were asking the labels not to participate in Amazon’s promotion, adding that Apple punished those that did by withdrawing marketing support for those songs on iTunes.
. . .
“Certainly if the Justice Department is getting involved, it raises the possibility of potential serious problems down the road for Apple,” said Daniel L. Brown, an antitrust lawyer at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton.
. . .
The Federal Trade Commission is moving ahead with a separate investigation of Apple’s rules for developers who create applications for the iPhone operating system, according to a person familiar with that discussion.

That inquiry, initiated by complaint from Adobe Systems, the maker of the Flash format for Internet video, is said to be in its early stages as well. '

More details at The NY Times.

I'd wondered if Adobe would be starting action, seeing that Steve Jobs has gone out of his way to publicly badmouth Adobe's Flash, which I imagine he should be free to do, but he's also trying to get the big websites to stop using it in favor of HTML5, which would take some time.  And now he's prohibited developers from using Flash to develop their apps for iPad even as a first step that is then converted and not run as Flash.  Before the iPad they were able to do that.

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