NEW YORK — is widely expected to unveil a new Kindle electronic reading device with a larger screen today, geared for textbooks, magazines and newspapers. It could shake up the economics of multiple industries at once.
The Seattle-based online retailer is not giving details about what it will announce at its media event at Pace University in New York, but the company has not disputed widespread reports that a larger Kindle is on tap. The most recent version of the Kindle was announced at New York’s Morgan Library & Museum in February.
That Kindle, which costs $359 and can wirelessly download books to be read on its grayscale screen, already includes several features that could aid textbook reading, such as the ability to highlight and bookmark passages.
Newspaper and magazine lovers also can buy subscriptions to publications that are wirelessly delivered to the device. The Associated Press; AP file photo
