Amazon: No New Kindle This Year

If you were hoping for a new version of the Amazon Kindle last year, time to ignore all those rumors. At least, that’s the word from Craig Berman, Amazon’s chief spokesman, according to the New York Times.

“Don’t believe everything you read,” Mr. Berman said in the article. “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.”

He also didn’t go any further in explaining exactly what a Kindle 2.0 would entail. That’s reasonable, since certain other companies tend to be tight-lipped about their future products, but we suppose it was worth a shot to ask.

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