Amazon's Kindle DX to start shippin on June 10th, PVI buys E Ink

Some interesting E Ink related news today:

Amazon announced that the Kindle DX will be released on June 10th. The DX has got a 9.7" 1200x824 (at 150 ppi) E Ink display, with 16 shades of gray. It costs 489$, you can pre-order now.

Amazon Kindle DX

The DX weights 535grams, and the size is 10.4" x 7.2" x 0.38". It's got 4GB of internal memory (around 3.3Gb of which are available to the user). The modem is a EVDO 1xRTT (Sprint 3G). It supports many formats, including PDF.

Prime View (PVI) announced that they will acquire E Ink for 215$. PVI is the largest ePaper display maker, it will be interesting to see how they integrate E Ink (which is more of an IP company).