The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
The initial list of publications is impressive and will no doubt continue to grow. It includes, from the US, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, Time and Fortune and international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland, including Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine and The Irish Times. Subscriptions are auto-delivered wirelessly to Kindle overnight so that the latest edition is waiting for customers when they wake up. Monthly Kindle newspaper subscriptions are $US5.99 to $US14.99 per month, and Kindle magazines are $US1.25 to $US3.49 per month.
This would count for little if they were hard to read, but if Amazon is to be believed reading the Kindle screen will be very similar to reading paper. "Kindle uses a high-resolution display technology called electronic paper that provides a sharp black and white screen that is as easy to read as printed paper. The screen works using ink, just like books and newspapers, but displays the ink particles electronically. It reflects light like ordinary paper and uses no backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other electronic displays such as computer monitors or PDA screens."
An added bonus of Kindle is that you can upload your own documents onto it to read. So if you have, say, a substantial Word document and a long journey ahead of you where perusing the screen of your laptop is not practical you can put it onto your Kindle. Customers can e-mail Word documents and pictures directly to their unique and customisable Kindle e-mail address for $US0.10 each. Kindle supports wireless delivery of unprotected Microsoft Word, HTML, TXT, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP files.
The Kindle Store currently offers more than 90,000 books on a truly vast range of topics and has over 300 blogs on topics ranging from Internet and technology to culture, lifestyle, and humour, to politics and opinion. Examples include Slashdot, TechCrunch, BoingBoing, The Onion, The Huffington Post, and ESPN blogs. Blogs are updated and downloaded wirelessly throughout the day so Kindle customers can read blogs whenever and wherever they want. Wireless delivery of blogs costs from $US0.99 each per month.
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