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A Washington Post magazine-style Kindle app sounds like a win for the paper and Amazon


Mathew Ingram's avatarGigaom

Some recent articles about the Washington Post have noted that being owned by [company]Amazon[/company] CEO Jeff Bezos hasn’t resulted in any dramatic changes to the newspaper, apart from some work on a new content-management system — but something fairly major is coming soon, according to a report at Bloomberg Businessweek. Brad Stone, a technology writer whose contacts at Amazon have proven fairly reliable in the past, says the newspaper is working on a magazine-style subscription app that will be released soon for the Kindle.

According to Stone’s article, a team within the Washington Post has been working on the app for the past several months as part of something called Project Rainbow, an effort being run by Kerry Lauerman, former editor-in-chief of Salon magazine. As the Businessweek article describes it:

A group inside the Post has been working on a new application that will offer a curated selection of news…

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The Kindle Voyage


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The Kindle Voyage


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Amazon’s new high-end e-reader, the Kindle Voyage, starts at $199 but has fancy page turns


Laura Hazard Owen's avatarGigaom

Remember all that speculation that Amazon would one day start giving away Kindle e-readers for free? In fact, the company is going in the opposite direction: Amazon introduced on Wednesday a new, high-end e-reader, the Kindle Voyage, that starts at $199 for the version with ads and goes all the way up to $289 for an ad-free, 3G version. Not only is it expensive for an e-reader, it is twice as expensive as the most basic tablet that Amazon also launched Wednesday.

So what will you get for your money? The Kindle Voyage is thinner and lighter than previous devices. It has a totally flat glass screen, without the raised plastic bezel that is present on cheaper models, and the screen is high-resolution, with 300 pixels per inch. Like the Kindle Paperwhite, the Voyage is front-lit, but its light is better — it can go “39 percent brighter” and…

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