Short history of Amazon’s Kindle

 2007

The very first Kindle was released on November 2007 and it was popular from the day it was on sale from Amazon's Kindle Store.
 This so called first Generation was only sold in the USA. Of course you could use the device when you were traveling outside
the US, but at that time (2007) you could not download ebooks when you were not living here due to the copyright restrictions of the digital books.

2009

On February 2009 the second generation went on sale. Kindle 2 as it is unofficially called (not by Amazon) was much slimmer than
the previous one and could store on it’s memory stick about 1500 ebook novels whereas the first one could only store about 200 digital books.

Although it didn’t had a memory slot anymore, it was seen as quite an improvement. On October 2009 the 2^nd Generation was taken out of the
Kindle Store in favor of the international version, which was the exact same ereader Amazon at the beginning of the year had launched. However
this updated version could download ebooks also outside the USA.

In 2009 Amazon for the second time improved the Kindle 2 by increasing the life of the battery considerably by about 85 % so you could read
longer without charging the batteries.

2010

In January 2010 you could now buy world the international version Kindle DX not only from the USA but also in 100 other countries as well.
It now supported pdf files and was even more capable of presenting  e-newspapers and plain text on an easy to read display than Generation 2.

The screen of the latest ereader Generation 3 as the DX was officially called ( Amazon doesn’t use numbers for the Kindle) was with 9.7 inch
considerably bigger than Kindle 2 which had a 6 inch screen.

By July 2010 the Kindle 3 (3^rd Generation officially) was now on sale in the Amazon's Kindle Store in 2 versions: Kindle Wi-fi
which gives you the opportunity to download ebooks and e-newspapers from the Kindle Store wirelessly. So you don’t
have to connect a cable first to your pc before you can download.

The second version is a bit more expensive because it not only has Wi-fi but also 3G. In August 2010 Amazon could proudly
announce that it was so far the most popular reading device you could buy at the Kindle Store.

Amazon digital reader has received generally positive reviews from the press as from the buyers in Amazon’s Kindle Store
as well who rated the latest device (3^rd Generation) most of the times with 5 stars (maximum). See Customer Reviews

2011

In a press release Amazon let us know that they were selling more digital books than the real ones printed on plain paper.

New: The Reviews Are In From the Press About the New Kindle.

Kindle 3 Pictures

Kindle 3G Video
 

Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device (Global Edition)  - If you travel or live outside the US this is the Wireless e-reader you
want to have. Download ebooks in more than 100 countries.

Kindle Wireless Reading Device (U.S.A.) For US Residents. You can use to read your favorite ebooks with this one
anywhere in the world, but if you also want to download ebooks abroad you need to have the global edition from Amazon.

Kindle 3G Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G + Wi-Fi, 6

Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, 6

How do the 3G and WiFi versions differ?