Amazon.com to ship Kindle DX ahead of schedule - PC World

Amazon.com's new large-screen Kindle DX e-reader will ship earlier than expected, the company said Monday. Amazon will begin shipping the product to customers on June 10, earlier than the third-quarter release the company had planned.

Amazon unveiled the new e-reader and allowed customers to begin pre-ordering it on May 6. The product, a follow-up to February's release of the Kindle 2, features a larger screen and more memory than either that product or its predecessor, the original Kindle released in November 2007. Kindle 2 also shipped slightly ahead of schedule.

The Kindle DX features a 9.7-inch screen, aimed at making it easier to read newspapers, textbooks, magazines and business documents. Other Kindle products have a 6-inch screen and were aimed mainly at reading paperback novels...