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Amazon's press event wasn't just about the Kindle Fire. Also unveiled were a new generation of Kindle e-readers, as well as the "Kindle Touch".

The Kindle Fire has been officially announced -- it will be released on November 15th, and will be priced at just $199. While most of the rumors about Amazon's tablet were true, some were proven to be completely ludicrous.

Amazon's mysterious tablet PC is no longer nameless. In a few weeks, you'll be able to get your eager hands on the "Kindle Fire".

Next Wednesday, Amazon.com will be holding their long-awaited press conference. According to most sources, this is going to be the "official" release announcement for Amazon's Kindle Tablet PC

Amazon is currently in negotiations with book publishers, trying to work out the details for a "book rental" program. Unlike the library, renting books from Amazon would cost money.

Amazon is finally making a visible effort to cut down on the fake, illegally re-published and spam books that are flooding their digital marketplace.

According to recently released stats, ebook sales have risen over 1000% in the past few years. Could books be the VHS tape of the new millennium?

Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, The Tree of Codes, has a marvelous title. But the real marvel begins when you turn the cover to find that the story is literally carved out of another work�namely, The Street of Crocodiles, the 1934 cycle of short stories by martyred Polish writer Bruno Schulz. There's a gadget angle to all this, but you'll have to follow the jump for it.

Both Apple and Amazon insist that their displays are better suited for eBook reading. But they can’t both be right. So to help provide a definitive answer to the big question in the eBook community, Keith from BIT-101 put his new USB microscope to the test by getting up close and personal with both the Kindle and iPad displays. Tested ...

Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata says that the company is debating whether or not a future model of the DS will take a book from Amazon’s book marketplace device, the Kindle, and offer digital downloads over the mobile 3G network. With this business model, Nintedo DS users wouldn’t be required to pay a monthly fee for 3G access, but would pay ...