International e-tailer Amazon.com will ship its larger screen Kindle DX to South African shores from 19 January.
This morning, the company announced it will sell its popular larger format e-reader globally, including to South African customers, through its online stores. In October last year, Amazon started selling its smaller Kindle to South African customers, busting a wide bootleg business of the device.
Adding international sales pushed up Amazon's revenue, with the company seeing its largest number of sales in November last year.
The new version of the device comes with a 9.7-inch screen and 3.3GB of memory, allowing users to store up to 3 500 books.
According to Amazon, the Kindle DX can be pre-ordered from the Amazon.com Web site for around R3 589 ($489 at today's exchange rate, without shipping and import duties) and shipping will begin on 19 January.
"Kindle DX is great for personal and professional documents, cookbooks and textbooks - anything that is highly formatted. Documents look so good on the big Kindle DX display, that you'll find yourself changing ink toner cartridges less often and printing fewer documents," says Ian Freed, VP, Amazon Kindle.
Kindle uses the same 3G wireless technology as cellphones, and the company's Web site shows SA is almost entirely covered for book downloads. While most sites will make use of GPRS or Edge, most of the major cities will use 3G speeds for download.
As with the older version, South Africans will have access to New York Times best sellers and new releases from $11.99 (R88), and other books will be available from $5.99 (around R44).
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