Hasta La Ideas

Amazon is showing some Apple-like secrecy in that they won’t confirm anything, but what’s for sure is that they’re holding an invitation-only press function this Wednesday. Reports Computer World,

[Amazon] has invited members of the press to an event on Wednesday that The New York Times, citing unnamed people, said will mark the launch of a reader like the Kindle but with a bigger screen. Amazon did not reply to a request for comment about what might be introduced at the event.

The New York Times could be one of the initial content providers to supply digital copies of its paper on the device….

The newspaper industry has been dying on the vine for a while now; could this be the device that saves them?

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