$110 Says All the New Kindles Are Coming Next WeekS   Out With
the Old  When bargain hounds opened their Amazon Deal of the Day
email this morning, they were met with a bargain basement Kindle
DX. Amazon's black sheep 10-inch e-ink tablet is $110 off today,
a 29% discount. It's the kind of deal you offer when you want to
clear out inventory, fast.  The DX isn't competitive in an iPad
world. It never has been. But you know what would be? A 10-inch
Kindle Fire. You know, like the one that's been rumored for
months.  Consider the context: The DX has long been neglected,
ignored even, by Amazon. And rightly so. First introduced in
2009, the DX has gotten a single, largely meaningless update
since. It's received no promotional support, despite Amazon's
obviously healthy marketing budget. Any relevance it had was
severely hampered by the introduction of the iPad, and was
obliterated when Apple decided to get into the textbook
business.  So clearly Amazon's trying to unload a product it
doesn't want to support any m