All geared up to use a Kindle DX when you head back to school next fall? The odds are against you: Amazon and six colleges are conducting the most preliminary of tests. Which means only a few dozen students at each school are going to get their mitts on the $489 gadgets.
The last time Amazon held a press conference in New York City was in February, when it introduced the Kindle 2.0. Now the company has scheduled another one for Wednesday morning at Pace University in lower Manhattan. Expect a new large-format device that’s optimized for reading newspapers and magazines.
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