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Amazon Kindle 2 Leaked, Sony Reader To Get Touch Screen

suraj.sun writes with news that the e-book reader market is getting more competitive. The Boy Genius Report got its hands on pictures of the Kindle 2, successor to Amazon's first e-book gadget. The new version is a bit bigger, with edges that are less awkward, and it has a revamped key layout. On the same day these pictures were found, Sony announced that a new model of its Reader would be getting a touchscreen, allowing users to "turn the page by swiping their finger across the screen" and "annotate text using a touchscreen keyboard." The advances for each gadget may help them regain market share against the iPhone, which, according to Forbes, has eclipsed both in popularity as a reading device. Hopefully the competition for sales and the work being done by the OLPC Project will help to drop prices as well.<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/04/1634259&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/04/1634259"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/04/1634259&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cJYtsGNT5s-zfehmRamuN_dHVwk/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cJYtsGNT5s-zfehmRamuN_dHVwk/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/vIUbnnuu7r8" height="1" width="1"/>