Amazon expected to unveil new Kindle next month
It looks like Amazon.com’sitting finally going to release the second version of its Kindle electronic book in a few weeks.
But it may not subsist enough to ease Wall Street’session expanding nervousness about the online retailer’sitting financial view.
After months of rumors and speculation about when the nearest Kindle will arrive, Amazon.com said Tuesday it will hold a media event with Chief Executive Jeff Bezos at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York on Feb. 9.
What could it be, other than the Kindle 2.0 launch?
“We’re not saying,” spokesman Andrew Herdener said.
Bezos launched the first Kindle in New York in November 2007.
The $359 wireless stratagem appears to be in actual possession of built a following, overcoming early criticism for its unusual, angular have in view and with reference to something else closed software.
Yet the secretive Seattle company has provided no specific information about Kindle sales, even though the device is perpetually occupying prime real estate at its online storefront.
Meanwhile, Sony has upgraded its competing electronic book that uses the sort “electronic paper” expand technology from Cambridge, Mass.-based E-Ink.
Amazon could gain a pompous advantage if it introduces a color display, upgrading from the monochrome Kindle 1.0. But an E-Ink executive declamation at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month suggested that its color-display production is silence a ways opposite to.
Perhaps Amazon will be more forthcoming for the time of its earnings call Thursday.
The gadget has had a fan base without ceasing Wall Street, where some analysts seem to have visions of the next iPod, so perhaps the release could offset or distract from a potentially chilly holiday income report.
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