— -- Here at a New York City media event, Amazon launched its second-generation e-book reader, the Kindle 2. This much anticipated update to the Kindle is priced at $359 and sports a new svelte ...

A quick look at the features in the new Amazon Kindle 2. Why I Hate E-readers, and Doubt They’ll Ever Hit the Mainstream It started with Sony. Like most poorly thought-out format ideas from the ...

Amazon claims that all it took was a six month firmware improvement test to get the Kindle 2 to run for 85 percent longer than before, which is a pretty damn impressive feat of engineering. It also ...

TechCrunch reports that the previously spied Kindle 2, or Kindle II, or Second-le, or whatever it’s going to be, isn’t really going to be anything before Q1 of 2009. Apparently, the device was on ...

Even before the Kindle 2 launched, there was talk of an even newer, larger digital reader from Amazon that would be geared more toward reading textbooks and periodicals. We all assumed it would be ...