www.amazon.com Pricing starts at $79 Includes touch-screen models Includes a color touch-screen "iPad" like device [at least that is what WSJ has been claiming but I just don't see it -- Color Nook competition? Yes. iPad competition? Doesn't look like it to me.] Claimed much-optimized web browsing on the color version. I think most of us can predict by now the advantages and disadvantages of that approach. "Good News" -- from my point of view: Amazon is now touting the ability to use free books from free sites, including archive.org and gutenberg.org http://www.amazon.com/gp/b/?node=2245146011 Not sure exactly who is doing what re Kindle support on archive.org, but something new is happening there. I downloaded a "Kindle" book from archive.org "at random" and what I find is much more readable than what I have found there in the past -- clearly some new OCR technology, readable, but surprisingly the OCR doesn't bother to "heal" all the linebreaks found within words. Still, if I can't find a book anywhere else, I think I would be happy to read the "Kindle" archive.org version. -- The approach taken seems similar to Google Books OCR, but better.