Steven Levy The Paper Chase

摘要

In February, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle 2 at New York City's Morgan Library. By all indications (Amazon has yet to offer an API to its own financials), the update of his electronic reading device defied the recession and sold tons. You would have thought that Bezos would take a rest. But in May he was back in New York, this time at Pace University-with another Kindle. He called it the Kindle DX, but it should have been called the Kindle XL, because the newcomer is all about size. The original model's e-ink screen measured 6 inches diagonally, roughly equivalent to a typical paperback.