Amazon’s announcement of the Kindle DX on Wednesday — hot on the heels of the Kindle 2’s emergence earlier this year — appears to have injected new life into the e-reader industry, which has been languishing for about 10 years. Several newspapers have indicated they will experiment with the Kindle DX — as well as with competing devices from companies like Plastic Logic — to distribute content directly to readers. Amazon is also attacking the textbook industry, lining up publishers who account for 60 percent of that market, as partners.
