Rumor – Amazon Kindle 2 Won’t Make Pre-Holiday Release

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There are rumors circulating that Amazon’s Kindle 2 E-book reader has been delayed and won’t make its pre-holiday target release date. Actual release is said to be sometime during Q1 of 2009.

Rumor has it that the device was on schedule for its target date until Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, demanded last minute software changes.

The Kindle was released one year ago and sold out within hours of its release. The highly popular device has the ability to wirelessly purchase and download books from the Amazon website through connectivity to Verizon’s EVDO network.

Most recently, Oprah has endorsed the reading device as a "must have" for anybody serious about reading.

The second-generation device is supposed to have design improvements over its predecessor while including a "power-over-usb" feature. No official specs have been released yet.