A larger Kindle could upend textbooks, periodicals - USATODAY.com

May 6, 2009

NEW YORK — Amazon.com is widely expected to unveil a new Kindle electronic book device with a larger screen Wednesday, which would be geared for textbooks, magazines and newspapers and possibly 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 press 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...