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At first glance it looks like a Kindle killer. Fujitsu took the veil off of FLEPia today, an e-book reader that shows 260,000 colors in full sunlight, and that works as a digital picture frame.

You've probably heard a lot of hype about the new Kindle 2 from Amazon that people just started receiving this week. This isn't the only news in electronic reading materials though. What if you could just get books delivered to your phone? That doesn't sound too bad, and it's exactly what Canadian Indigo Books & Music, Inc. is doing with its well-timed release of Shortcovers, which launched today.

Not everybody’s thrilled with Kindle 2, namely Roy Blount, Jr., author and president of the Author’s Guild. The last time we heard from the Author’s Guild, they were mighty upset about Google scanning and indexing library books. This time the objection is over the text-to-speech function Amazon included, which reads the downloaded book aloud.

Amazon's Kindle 2 has arrived in the hands of those lucky enough to get the early pre-orders. Luckily Murdok was among the first batch of recipients. So let's take a look at this bad boy.

Rumor had it that Amazon would unveil a new version of its Kindle e-book reader today; pictures of a slim and slick-looking device were already circulating, and Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO, had called a press conference in New York.  Now, Amazon's investors and (slightly) late adopters will be happy to hear that the rumor was realized.

Rumor has it Amazon will unveil the second generation of its ebook Kindle at a press event next Monday. The device is expected to be thinner and cheaper, but still will lack certain functionalities the digital consuming public might expect. Beyond that, predictions for the device seem overly optimistic.

Word on the street is that Amazon is working on some new versions of the Kindle. At least one of them will be aimed at college students, a market that probably should've been targeted more closely the first time around.