Kindle 2 Starts Shipping a Day Early
Mon, Feb 23rd, 2009 |
Amazon.com on Monday began shipping its Kindle 2 e-book reader a day earlier than originally planned.
Amazon said Monday that Kindle 2, introduced two weeks ago for preordering, is already the number-one seller on its Electronics Web site. Amazon unveiled the second version of the Kindle on Feb. 6 at an event in New York that featured Amazon Chairman, CEO and founder Jeff Bezos and best-selling fiction writer Stephen King, who wrote a novella called "Ur" exclusively for the Kindle to mark the launch.
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