Barnes & Noble Nook vs Amazon Kindle 2 battle on the cards

I am an unabashed fan of Amazon's Kindle: partly because we in India are still far way off from seeing our first Kindle, partially because it cuts out a lot nonsense.

Stephen King’s Kindle 2 novel UR is ready. UR will be available exclusively on Amazon’s ebook reader Kindle 2, which was released on Monday. UR is the world’s first novella to be written exclusively for the Kindle 2 format.

Hey, this is a surprise. The latest Kindle, announced a few hours back by Amazon, is better in so many ways for sure. But the most interesting feature is a read-To-Me option. We have not come across a demo of the Read-To-me feature so far - its a matter of time ...