Business Week recently claimed (below) that Amazon would launch a new version of the Kindle ebook reader before Christmas, but it isn't true, according to Amazon. The Dow Jones newswire reports:
"Don't believe everything you read -- there's a lot of rumor and speculation out there about Kindle," said Amazon spokesman Craig Berman. "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."
This could also mean that the UK launch is some way away, based on my assumption that Amazon will "go global" only when it has a revised and probably cost-reduced new model. That assumption could, of course, be wrong.
