Kindle kindly gives its readers free access to NYTimes.com

Amazon.com, Inc announces that subscribers for The New York Times for Kindle will be receiving access to the publication’s website, free of charge.
The free online access for the Kindle New York Times will soon be announced; subscribers will receive further information via e-mail in the coming weeks.
According to Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content, the high percentage of customers subscribed to New York Times for Kindle is what motivated them to make the move.
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Sporting minor tweaks and some big changes in its design and capability, here comes the third generation of the Amazon's portable reading device, its best-selling product by far, simply called the Kindle. Read on because you may find something that you will love (or hate, whichever is your inclination) in the iterations made by Amazon to the device.
Calling all e-book enthusiasts! The new generation of Kindle has arrived. It is the third of its kind and Amazon wanted to keep it simple. Let’s start right off with the big changes that come in with the new Kindle. The lighter and smaller hand held highlights a faster refresh rate on its E Ink screen, the same 6-inch screen that its two early models have. Sporting a new color, graphite, in addition to the orginal white, the device have two configurations from which you can choose from: the WiFi only version that costs $139, or the 3G version that hits $189. Its memory now runs up to 4GB, while its battery runs for a month without wireless, and 10 days with wireless turned on.
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