Amazon's Kindle ebook reader delayed until end of the year?

Although it hasn't had the buzz of some other longstanding rumors, we've heard a lot about Amazon's Kindle ebook reader over the past year -- everything from FCC pics to tagged content to a supposed October 15th ship date, which came and went with nary a peep from the etailer. Now Brad Stone at the New York Times -- who predicted that ship date to begin with -- says that his sources have told him that the Kindle has been delayed (shocking), but will still make it out by the end of the year. Stone also says Amazon is still perfecting the service and wants to have as much Kindle-ready content (Kindling?) available at launch as it can -- and that the built-in EV-DO modem will pull down content over Sprint's network. That's news to us, but until we actually see this thing we're going to take our Kindle with a large grain of salt.

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[duncan.macleod @ Oct 31st 2007 8:21PM]

This thing is ridiculous looking

[blackeagle @ Oct 31st 2007 8:34PM]

indeed... I like the look of sony's

[Macindows @ Oct 31st 2007 8:43PM]

Please delay it forever!

[alin Steglinski @ Oct 31st 2007 10:39PM]

this thing is ugly as hell!!!

[loci @ Oct 31st 2007 9:10PM]

its like a bad vision of the future from the 60's

[BatteryAcid @ Oct 31st 2007 9:49PM]

Mea... It's OK.

[BatteryAcid @ Oct 31st 2007 9:49PM]

Mea... It's OK.

[uclatommy @ Oct 31st 2007 11:02PM]

God! why is it so uglay?

[KDC @ Oct 31st 2007 11:21PM]

Oh, that is so ugly.
When is some one going to come out with one of those pads like in Star Trek (Voyager). that would be cool.

[Paul Lopez @ Oct 31st 2007 11:32PM]

Too bad this is delayed. I was looking forward to squinting my eyes trying to read it on my back porch on a sunny day.

[Adam K @ Nov 1st 2007 12:03AM]

Is that the Black Mesa logo?

[antifanboy @ Nov 1st 2007 12:28AM]

you fanboys, how about understanding that the photo given to the regulators is not the final design. The only thing regulators regulate is some magnetic emissions, chemical safety and so forth stuff - they do not regulate design so a company can give a product with absolutely dildo design for a ebook reader as long as mangetic and chemical interaction with the user remain the same - later the design is added.

Also - why would a company give a away its design so easily to its competitors and to its future slaves?

[loci @ Nov 1st 2007 9:14AM]

you don't quite understand the meaning of "fanboy" do you

[sam @ Nov 1st 2007 12:57AM]

If its cheap, I don't care how ugly it is. I want.

Throwing in unnecessary things like an EVDO modem though means this probably won't happen.

[doctord @ Nov 1st 2007 11:24AM]

What Amazon SHOULD have done is go to Apple and said "Hey, design me an e-reader that would be cool." Instant success.