Kindle – Global by Design

Amazon’s Kindle goes multilingual

July 29, 2010 by John Yunker

The Kindle 3 was announced last evening. The big news about the device is the price — starting at $139. You could argue that this is the first mass-market e-reader. Of course, going truly mass market means going multilingual. Last …

Kindle goes international, but not multilingual

October 13, 2009 by John Yunker

The Kindle has gone international, sort of. That is, Amazon is launching a new Kindle outfitted with a radio chip that works in most of the world’s cellular markets (100+) — as opposed to the US-only Kindle, which operates only …