New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir - WSJ.com

New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir

By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG

Amazon.com Inc., pushing further into the digital distribution of books,
unveiled a thinner and faster version of its Kindle electronic-book
reader but raised controversy among publishers and others with a new
text-reading feature.
[Jeff Bezos and Amazon Kindle] Reuters

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos displays the Kindle 2 e-book reader at an event
Monday.

"Our vision is every book ever printed in any language all available in
60 seconds," said Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos at a Monday press
conference in a New York library.

The Seattle company also said it has a new work by best-selling novelist
Stephen King, called "Ur," which will be available exclusively on Kindle.

Originally launched in November 2007, Kindle has been so popular that it
was out of stock over the key December holiday-shopping period for the
last two years.

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