Amazon unveiled its latest Kindle on Wednesday, the Kindle DX, which boasts a 9.7” display screen, 2.5 times larger than the recently launched Kindle 2.  The goal is to make it more useful for textbooks, newspapers, and magazines, but the increased screen size, and the same improved gray scale used in the Kindle 2, also makes it more likely to be used by comic and RPG publishers.  It’s also PDF-friendly, which will allow it to accommodate the significant number of RPG publishers currently selling books in PDF form. 

As a $489 device, it’s still only for early adopters, although three newspapers, the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Washington Past, are going to subsidize the purchase of the device in areas where home delivery isn’t available for those buyers who subscribe to their papers.   It will go on sale sometime this summer.