No New Kindle This Year

By Digital Trends Staff Published October 25, 2009

For a little while now market watchers had been predicting a new, stripped-down – and cheaper – version of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader aimed at students arriving before the end of the year.

It’s not going to happen.

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Talking to the New York Times, Amazon’s Craig Berman was categorical in his denial:

"Don’t believe everything you read — there’s a lot of rumor and speculation out there about Kindle. One thing I can tell you for sure is that there will be no new version of Kindle this year. A new version will come out sometime next year at the earliest."
He wouldn’t be drawn on whether that new version would be aimed at the student market.

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