Amazon Reveals Sleeker, Faster Kindle and New $140 Wi-Fi-Only Version

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Amazon today announced the new Kindle e-book reader, which, in accordance with its past naming traditions, is simply called the Kindle. The name hasn't changed, and there are no crazy new advances--color e-ink and video are still years off, and may never be worth the trade-offs in price and quality over LCD--but this is definitely the most lust-worthy Kindle yet.

After the (now last-gen) Kindle was mysteriously out of stock yesterday, our own Kit Eaton made some predictions. His third guess...