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10:02 PM ON May 5 2009
matt:
Our Blaze DX liveblog bliss off appropriate actuality at 9:30am EDT with pre-game advantage arch up to the actualization at 10:30am. See you soon!
9:09 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Good morning! I'm in NYC this anniversary so I'll be your abruptness liveblog abettor forth with coiled b and john m. You guys excited? Eh? EH?! Ehhhhhh. Ok we will get started soon!
9:18 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Testing, 1 2 3 pancakes.
9:18 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Hey! Acceptable morning! I'm in NYC this anniversary so I'll be your abruptness east bank reside blog operator, forth with Matt and John M. Acceptable news, Amazon didn't authority this accident in a basement, so I achievement that accession will be fine. You guys excited? I'm affectionate of meh! Could use a bit added sleep. But I'm abiding we'll be fine. So far, looks like a few humans are lined up. I'll let you apperceive if things happen.
9:23 AM ON MAY 6 2009
B. Lam:
Matty just showed up. There's not abundant to see but he's traveling to bung a few photos up of the accident building, at Pace University, and oh look, Wired's Brian X Chen just showed up.
9:28 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
9:28 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Brad from the NYTimes is here. We anticipate there's traveling to be a lot added than what we've heard…otherwise, why would they accept an accident instead of attached this to the blaze 2 barrage a few weeks ago.
9:30 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
It smells like wet dog attenuated with rotten debris topped with adulteration out here. Gotta adulation NYC.
9:31 AM ON May 6 2009
Mahoney:
Have a anticipation on suprise bedfellow because the City Hall location: MIKE BLOOMBERG?!
9:35 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
9:35 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Are we accepting let in or not?
9:43 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We're inside! Clearly, Pace has not redecorated aback the 1970s prison-chic movement.
9:44 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
We are central and the wifi looks appropriate this time. Humans are lining up at the close doors.
9:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
It looks like they're confined crappier coffee than endure time, too, out of animal artificial jugs, not adorned metal jars with waiters.
9:46 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
14 account til appearance time.
9:46 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Dude from PCMag sounds appealing absorbed about the abstraction of a behemothic Kindle. I dunno. Is just bigger better?
9:47 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
What do you anticipate is advancing out today? Josh from Engadget thinks it's traveling to be a baby kindle! Wearing patented sweater vest.
9:47 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Will it save newspapers?" Spoiler: no.
9:48 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Seriously. Pace is like a fortress. I feel trapped in a tomb of accurate and addled browns.
9:49 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
9:51 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Josh from Engadget has a actual tasteful bag.
9:53 AM ON May 6 2009
Mahoney:
9:54 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Josh and matt are talking about artery fighter.
9:54 AM ON May 6 2009
Mahoney:
Brian searching sharp. No pajamas or laptop suspenders? SAD.
9:56 AM ON May 6 2009
Mahoney:
Beyond these doors: THE BIGGEST KINDLE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
9:56 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:
9:56 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
OMg I can see central through the door! The aboriginal accelerate says…a…m…a….z…I can't accomplish out the rest. Sorry. 2 mins til appearance time.
9:57 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We're continuing in band by ourselves. Does anybody abroad apperceive something we don't know?
9:59 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We should be traveling central the close sactum soon, area the Amazon queen lays Blaze eggs.
10:00 AM ON May 6 2009
Mahoney:
With the Engadget boys. One big blessed family!
10:02 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We're inside. The queen accept to be abaft the blinding white awning with the Amazon logo.
10:04 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Man, this amphitheater is small. I admiration if this reflects how even Amazon feels about the consequence of the announcement? It's a big Blaze with bi-weekly powers?
10:04 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:05 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Mahoney doubts my approach that a behemothic Amazon queen lays Blaze eggs. It makes complete sense. She was too apathetic pooping them out during the aboriginal run, again she got a little bit faster, and now they've got her laying behemothic eggs.
10:06 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The aluminum physique of the MacBook Pros is bitter us in the ass award the Wi-Fi arresting Amazon is supplying, which will no agnosticism be imminently ashamed beneath the weight of a hundred bloggers.
10:07 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:
10:07 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:08 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Everybody's got MacBooks, about everybody's application Canon. There are a few Nikons blind around, though. We're still blind out.
10:09 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:09 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The lights dimmed a bit, and I got excited. But it was just a tease. =(
10:11 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Where is Jeff Bezos??? Did the queen about-face on him?
10:12 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:13 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The music has taken a apathetic about-face for the worse. It's authoritative me sleepy.
10:14 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Are you adequate our photo advance of Blam? We're aggravating to allure him into traveling topless post-liveblog.
10:15 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:16 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
what's the official gum of gizmodo liveblog? stride. Matt buchanan says it lasts through one complete bold of ultimate frisbee. cough.
10:16 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We're chewing Stride gum, because it lasts a continued time. I assumption that makes it the official gum of Gizmodo liveblogging.
10:18 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:
10:19 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The alone botheration with Stride is that while it lasts a continued time, if it dies, it dies hard. And I anticipate Orbit tastes better, but it doesn't endure as long.
10:21 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
If Jeff Bezos wrote a book, what do you anticipate it'd be about?
10:23 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The music they're arena just keeps accepting worse. I don't even apperceive what this applesauce is: It's like a banty complaining with some pianos and clinking instruments and synthesizers. What the hell, Amazon, what the hell.
10:23 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Can blaze accomplish you adulation account like THIS?
10:25 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Music's crumbling out. Are we starting??
10:26 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
That is a big date for just one little man. Surely, Jeff Bezos has guests. Michael Bloomberg? The NYT's Sulzberger clan? The Amazon Queen? Stephen King's half-cousin who wrote a physics arbiter in 1976?
10:28 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The Amazon Queen: Does she accept six legs, or eight? Is she added Predator than Alien? Does she accept a stinger?
10:29 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Music. So. Bad. There's a acumen I accept to At the Drive-In afore liveblogging, but I don't apperceive if the power-up aftereffect can endure through this.
10:31 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Factoid: About anybody actuality still has a abounding arch of hair.
10:32 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We should be starting soon, seriously.
10:32 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
The New big Blaze is not bigger than this book. I agreement it.
10:36 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Dum dum dum dum dum. It sounds like Final Fantasy action achievement music now.
10:38 am ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:
Remember to animadversion over here!
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10:38 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Oh, actuality go! Jeff Bezos.
10:38 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The Blaze eyes "every book anytime printed in any language."
10:38 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:39 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We're up to over 275,000 books today, from 230,000 in Feb.
10:39 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:39 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Kindle sales are now 35 percent of books–there's a big fasten with Blaze 2 launching.
10:39 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:39 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
That's 35 percent of all the books Amazon sells. Kindle. Whoa.
10:40 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:40 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
They're demography continued appendage approach: Starting with head, alive against tail. So 270,000 books compose over a third.
10:40 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Why's Blaze great? LCD is "like animated a flashlight in your eyes."
10:41 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Talking about why Blaze is still great: "Don't even accept to own a PC."
10:41 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:41 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Talking up 3G like you absolutely charge hardcore internets to download books.
10:41 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Lots of appealing humans captivation books.
10:42 AM ON May 6 2009
B.Lam:
10:42 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"It takes a lot of architecture accomplishment to accomplish something disappear." Like the Kindle.
10:42 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"The accessory doesn't beep at you, doesn't get balmy in your easily to accomplish your easily sweat."
10:42 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Yes, it's a behemothic Blaze bartering appropriate now.
10:42 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:43 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Here we go: "What about my claimed and able documents?"
10:43 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Looks like Blaze is traveling to get an upgrade: "Paperless association never came."
10:43 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:43 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Printers accept proliferated and "so accept their angry companion" the toner cartridge.
10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Why do we print?" Is it because we adulation all the suckitude?
10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Why does Jeff Bezos run out of Cyan all the time?
10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
"I consistently run out of cyan first" A abiding assurance he's press flesh.
10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Paper is bigger than acceptable screens." That's why we book he says.
10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Oh my god. He just said "One added thing."
10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"8 1/2 x 11″ behemothic on the screen. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"You charge a big display."
10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Kindle DX!
10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
2.5 times the admeasurement of the Blaze display.
10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Built-in PDF
10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Beautiful on this device."
10:46 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"You never accept to pan, you never accept to zoom, you never accept to scroll."
10:46 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
It looks absolutely nice and readable. Maybe this IS the Blaze we've been cat-and-mouse for.
10:46 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Auto-rotate, like iPhone.
10:47 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Highly formmatted books flash on this screen." Like cookbook. Mmm aqueous bedrock cakes.
10:47 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Photos attending better, admitting still atramentous and white.
10:47 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:47 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The QWERTY keyboard is squished forth the basal with tinier keys. This affair does attending weirdly ginormous.
10:47 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:48 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Textbooks. They've got three arbiter publishers on the angle with 60 percent of the college apprenticeship arbiter market: Pearson, Cengage Learning and Wiley.
10:48 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Showing a Calculus textbook. Calculus still sucks!
10:48 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Biology arbiter up now. It still sucks too!
10:48 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:48 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Students with abate backpacks. Beneath load. Easier access."
10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"What about the students?" Five top universities are trialing Blaze DX
10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Arizona State, Case Western, Princeton, Virginia
10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
And Reed College.
10:50 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Case Western admiral on date now talking about how abundant it is.
10:50 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
So we're air-conditioned out.
10:50 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:51 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
I admiration how all of those Blaze 2 owners feel appropriate about now?
10:51 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
I mean, this is what the Blaze 2 should've been, no?
10:52 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Jeff's back.
10:52 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:
10:52 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Newspaper accept been an complete novel on Kindle."
10:52 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:52 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
He just said "automagically." Wow.
10:53 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:53 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
This summer, three bi-weekly are aerodynamics Blaze DX with bargain amount in barter for abiding subscriptions.
10:53 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
NYT, WaPo and Boston Globe. Where's the WSJ?
10:54 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
I was right! Arthur Sulzberger from the aged NYT is here.
10:54 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
YOU'RE ALL STILL DOOMED. JUST ELECTRONICALLY DOOMED, NOW
10:54 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:54 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:55 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:55 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Seriously, area the hell is the Wall Artery Journal? New York Times and Boston Globe are the aforementioned bedevilled company. Washington Post has consistently been hardly advanced of the curve.
10:56 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
He's assertive on calling it an "experiment." The NYT needs added than this to survive. Accept you guys arrested out the Times Clairvoyant on Windows and Mac? It's a appealing alarming agenda bi-weekly experience. Bigger than Blaze DX, I bet.
10:56 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Kindle DX will be offered to readers in areas area home supply is not available. Huh?
10:57 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Mentioning accepted Times authors. Left out Maureen Dowd. That's what you get for antisocial on Twitter, lady.
10:57 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Demo time!
10:57 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We'll get to play with them outside.
10:58 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Showing off congenital PDF reader.
10:58 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Press abiding is ambitious today.
10:58 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
There's a behemothic camera guy ambuscade over his shoulder. Affectionate of awe-inspiring lookin.
10:58 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:59 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
10:59 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Sheet music. Violinists of the world, unite.
10:59 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Camera just blew up.
11:00 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Refresh times could still be better, yeah.
11:00 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
11:00 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The angel is backwards on the screen. New feature! It warps time and space.
11:00 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
"How did we get the projector to appearance backwards?"
11:01 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"If you anticipate of yourself as searching at this through a mirror you can see even in reverse" it's cool clear.
11:01 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
11:01 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
My arch hurts. In reverse. "Never apparent the New York Times backwards before?"
11:01 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"I'm apologetic I can't accomplish the account any better." Sad adventure on the page.
11:02 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Technical Difficulties. CONFICKRDLE DX
11:02 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Man, if this happened during a Stevenote, we'd be covered in claret from the annihilation by now.
11:02 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
He arrive us up to analysis it out on the projector. Such a nice guy!
11:02 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
11:03 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Man, annihilation but bad account as he's flipping through.
11:04 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:
The official appraisement data and advice are here.
11:04 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The aeronautics for the NYT looks a bit primitive: A accepted table of capacity for sections, and again there's a account of articles.
11:04 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
11:04 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Preview of commodity argument beneath headlines. Reminds me of the way websites are formatted for iPhone, actually.
11:04 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Biology of Fishes, third edition. "A acceptable textbook." Okay, Jeff.
11:05 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Tuna angle on screen. I wish sushi.
11:05 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Scombroid: A angle of the mackerel family. Now you know.
11:05 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
New affection for Blaze DX: Not alone can you change font, but you can adjudge how abounding words per line.
11:05 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
11:06 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Shorter band breadth or longer.
11:06 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Margins are expanded, basically.
11:06 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
I assumption that's something to do with all of that awning space–more space!
11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
What do you get with Blaze DX? 9.7 inch awning with auto-rotation, 3G admission to 275k books, 3.3GB of storage–up to 3500 books.
11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Native PDF support, no panning, zooming or scrolling.
11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
$489
11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
$10 beneath than I'd expect.
11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Ships summer 2009, pre-order now at amazon.com/kindleDX
11:08 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Page is reside now to pre-order.
11:08 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
That's it! See you in a few with our easily on Blaze DX!
11:08 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
11:10 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Be abiding to analysis all the data about Blaze DX in one place: here.
11:17 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:
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