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Amazon unveils new Kindle Paperwhite ago

The flagship of e-book readers, the Internet Group is modernized. The devices have better screens and faster processors. Amazon also introduced a completely new program.

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The flagship of e-book readers, the Internet Group is modernized. The devices have better screens and faster processors. Amazon also introduced a completely new program.

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The U.S. technology company Amazon has released a new version of its successful reader for electronic books, Kindle presented. The next generation of Kindle Paperwhite is equipped with a stronger contrast screen and a faster processor, Amazon said. Book pages are hardly “to distinguish them from those of a printed book” in the future on the new devices.

Electronic books could open faster, pages are turned rapidly, it said. The touch screen reacts with new technology precisely than hitherto, a new display backlight makes reading relaxed.

The devices may be pre-ordered now at a price of 129 euros and would be from 9 Delivered in October, Amazon said. A variant with mobile internet access is to be had for 189 euros and will from 6 November sent.

adds new features: With PageFlip users can check among other things quickly on another page in the book and then read back to the old position. This is useful for example in footnotes in scholarly books. When looking up words the Kindle Paperwhite also gets its information not only from a dictionary, but also from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

also announced the new service matchbook, but only so far for the U.S. Amazon. Users who bought a printed book on Amazon can (about 2.27 euros) orders for a fee of up to $ 2.99, the electronic Kindle version. The offer applies to all ever ordered from Amazon Books. However, a prerequisite is that the publisher of the title participates in the program. To the U.S. launch of Matchbook in October, according to the company’s more than 10,000 titles available.

Amazon also plans to integrate Goodreads, a social network on reading, which bought the company this year, the Kindle e-reading software.

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