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Kindle 2.0 in the Works

Michael Arrington writes: “More rumors about the new Kindle are emerging. The first device will have a similar-sized screen as the existing model but will have a much enhanced form factor. The second will be a large-screen device aimed at students and will come later. Somewhere around a quarter of a million Kindles have been sold to date and Amazon is clearly pushing out the last of the current units via a credit-card promotion on their site that drops $100 off the $359 device.”

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Amazon’s Portable Reading Device Comes in Handy

Imagine waking up to find your morning newspaper on the night stand each day without ever having to get out of bed. Or say you want another book to read while soaking up some sun on the beach. And voila! Michael Connelly’s latest book appears in the palm of your hand. Amazon.com wants consumers to go even more digital with their reading habits with its 8-month-old Kindle reading device. Visit Amazon.com, and it’s the first thing you see.

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Is Kindle the iPod of e-books?

Is the Kindle about to catch fire? Could Amazon.com’s seven-month-old wireless e-book reader - a rectangular wonder in antique iPod white, able to download any of 125,000 books adapted to its format - be the tipping point that marks the decline and fall of the paper book? If those two questions continue to dominate techno-talk in the book-publishing industry, it’s because book folk, being weaker in gizmo-related prognostication than, say, the devotees of a consumer electronics show, aren’t sure. But earlier this month here at Book Expo America, the yearly meeting of the American publishing business, they ran into one man who seems absolutely sure: Jeff Bezos, founder and master marketer of Amazon,

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Kindle Helps Tiny E-Book Market Continue to Grow

More than four months after Amazon.com released the Kindle, no one is sure whether the latest e-book reader is really hot _ or not. But publishers believe that the Kindle has helped, if not revolutionized, the tiny electronic market. Amazon.com has received extensive media coverage since unveiling the Kindle on the Monday before Thanksgiving and announcing that the first run had sold out within a few hours. Amazon.com has declined to give sales figures for the Kindle _ at least 2,000, judging from the number of customer reviews _ but has said repeatedly that supply is not keeping up with demand, with the device often out of stock.

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Amazon Unveils ‘TextBuyIt’

Amazon.com’s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps on their cellphones. Amazon TextBuyIt, which launched recently, lets people text the name of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to 262966 (that’s “Amazon” on the keypad) from anywhere their cellphones work — including from inside physical stores. If Amazon stocks matching items, the service returns two results at a time. Shoppers can immediately buy one of the first two the selections by texting back the number “1″ or “2,” or they can ask for more by texting the letter “M.”

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Sold-Out Kindle Lacks Rave Reviews

Buoyed by media attention and generally positive professional reviews, Amazon.com’s electronic book reader, the Kindle, remains sold out more than a month after its launch. ut according to one measure of popularity — Amazon’s own star rating system — the Kindle has had only lukewarm success. So far, more than 1,300 visitors have ranked the device and have awarded it with an average of 3 1/2 out of five stars.

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Opinion: Why Amazon’s Kindle is Revolutionary

Last week, the author set out to deflate the hype about Amazon’s new Kindle e-book reader and to tell you why it will fail. But while researching this column, the author became convinced of the opposite: Kindle is revolutionary and will succeed in the market. Some percentage of book lovers, including the author, will buy one to replace their beloved paper books, magazines and newspapers.

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The Future of Reading

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos already built a better bookstore. Now he believes he can improve upon one of humankind’s most divine creations: the book itself.

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