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Rumours of Amazon’s new Kindle eBook reader have been floating around the web recently, with one rumour hinting on the new 2.0 version of the device being announced this coming Monday, and another about a possible education model targeted at students as an alternative to textbooks. The current version of the Kindle has been quite successful, with one analyst believing that about 500,000 Kindles were sold in 2008; pretty good considering it’s a niche device and only available in the United States. Read more