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Aug 28 2008 3:06pm EDT

Amazon.com: No New Kindle This Year

Sam Gustin says: Amazon.com is trying to quash rumors of a new version of its Kindle e-book reader -- at least for this year anyway.

Brad Stone of the New York Times extracted the following quote from Craig Berman, Amazon.com's chief spokesman.

"Don't believe everything you read," Berman said. "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."

Berman wouldn't address speculation that the next version of the device will be aimed at the educational text-book market.
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Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.
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