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• Amazon Kindle Fire: First look

  Key features of Amazon's would-be iPad "killer".

• Amazon unveils $200 Kindle Fire tablet

  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has shown off the Kindle Fire, a $US199 ($A201) tablet computer, challenging Apple's iPad by extending its Kindle brand into the world of full-colour, multipurpose devices.

• Snapshot of the new Amazon tablet

  Rumoured to be called Kindle Fire, Amazon’s upcoming tablet will be unveiled in less than 24 hours.

• US libraries lend digital books to Kindle

  Thousands of US libraries have begun lending digital books over the internet for reading on Amazon's popular Kindle devices.

• Kindle lets readers question authors

  Amazon has launched a test version of Kindle software that lets readers fire off questions to authors in text messages sent from the popular electronic book readers.

• Kindle first impressions: It's all good

  Well, now we know why Amazon's stock of Kindle 2 e-readers evaporated so quickly. Just hours after I wrote about the devices being out of stock, Amazon announced a new model of its popular e-reader. The device, called simply the Kindle, is available for pre-order now and will ship August 27. While most of us will have to wait a month to get our hands on the new gadget, a few lucky bloggers and technology reporters already got a chance to check it out. So far, they seem to like it...a lot. In fact, in reading many of the reports about the new Kindle, I found it difficult to find anything they didn't like about it.

• Amazon's new Kindle rachets up e-reader price battle

  Amazon.com's announcement late Wednesday that it will launch a new version of its Kindle e-book reader in August could further stoke a price battle between major players in the e-reader market.

• Amazon unveils sleek new Kindle

  Amazon took it's time with its latest Kindle-and that time has paid off in spades.

• Amazon raises the specs, cuts the price on latest Kindle DX

  Amazon.com is keeping up the pressure on competitors in the electronic book market and will launch on July 7 a new version of its Kindle DX that features a better screen and costs US$110 less than the current model.

• Price war! Amazon drops Kindle to $189, down from $259

  Wasting little time in responding to Barnes & Noble's new lower prices for its Nook e-readers, Amazon today slashed the cost of its Kindle device to $189, the company announced. The new price is $70 off the Kindle's previous $259 list, and $10 less than a comparably equipped Nook.

• Will Amazon's Kindle Android app hurt Kindle sales?

  Friends, readers, Kindlemen: Allow me to pose a question. If you could get digital books on the smartphone you already carry, would you still buy a dedicated e-reader?

• Google Editions: bringing e-books to your browser

  Google wants to bring your digital book reader into the cloud.

• Amazon Kindle hits China's gray market

  The Amazon Kindle can now count itself among devices such as the iPhone being unofficially sold in bustling Chinese bazaars, marking the growing popularity of e-readers in China.

• Amazon preps Kindle app for iPad

  Amazon today announced that it will release Kindle software for Apple's iPad, a move one analyst said was in line with the e-tailer's earlier releases of viewing software for the PC, Mac, iPhone and Blackberry.

• Color and video coming to Kindle? Partner shows new screens

  Color e-reader screens that can imitate video playback were on show Thursday from the company that makes the Kindle for Amazon.com, as similar technologies move closer to debuting in finished products.