Amazon’s next-generation Kindle e-book reader may be significantly thinner than its predecessor. It may boast an improved screen and a more intuitive interface. It might be a little less ugly. It could even be “the device Amazon wanted to release in the first place,” as some reports have claimed. But it will not arrive at market in October as rumored. Nor will it arrive before Christmas. In fact, Kindle 2.0 won’t debut in 2008 at all, according to Amazon (AMZN) spokesman Craig Berman. “Don’t believe everything you read,” Berman told the New York Times. “There’s a lot of rumor and speculation about the Kindle. One thing I can tell you for sure is that there will be no new version of the Kindle this year. A new version is possible sometime next year at the earliest.”
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You can also bet it won’t have a color screen. And thus won’t be that useful to save students textbook fees.
Posted by Eric Welch at August 29th, 2008 at 8:10 amIf you believe these other reports, despite rumors to the contrary, it doesn’t sound like a student textbook version is on the near horizon either:
http://money.cnn.com/news/news.....RTUNE5.htm
Posted by Tom Marhoefer at August 29th, 2008 at 10:00 am“It might be a little less ugly.”
Amazon probably needs all the design time they can get to even approach the near perfect uglyness they achieved with Kindle 1.0.
IMO, the Kindle has achieved that rarefied state of true “Fuglyness.”
Posted by Tom Marhoefer at August 29th, 2008 at 2:58 pm