The US Department of State canceled a contract of 1.3 billion yen on Amazon's Kindle delivery

ByBfishadow

The US State Department signed a contract of $ 16.5 million (about 1.3 billion yen) with Amazon.com for June 2500 Kindle for use at the overseas diplomatic mission in June, which was canceled in June.

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Until now, the US Department of State purchased and sent printed books to overseas diplomatic missions, but planned to replace it with an e-book reader, conducted a competition, and decided to introduce Kindle. The contract content includes 2,500 Kindle preinstalled with 50 titles, and its management, etc. It was 16.5 million dollars (about 1.3 billion yen) for a total of 1 year + 4 years for a total of 5 years.

The requirement issued by the State Department is that the battery has a long life and has continuous use time of 8 hours or more, that it is compatible with text-to-speech, that Wi-Fi connection is possible, that 3G line is supported, 3G The content download fee on Wi - Fi is consistent, etc., So the contract was concluded that Kindle is the only device that meets all the requirements.

ByKodomut

By the way, although Apple 's iPad was also raiding as a rival, iPad was not a single - function electronic reader, it was shunned that it was classified as "tablet" or "computer" as a category. Not only the added functions are unnecessary but also that the risks were great in terms of security and usability for the government to use in this project.

ByLiewcf

Regarding this project, after reviewing the market in the future, necessary conditions will be reviewed again.

Furthermore, comments are not announced especially from Amazon.com.