There is a new wi-fi Kindle and it cost $139. You can see it here: Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, 6
There is also a new Kindle out that allows 3G cellular network to download books. It is $189 which is the same price as the Kindle 2 was selling for. You can see it here: Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G + Wi-Fi, 6
Article at Wired
Amazon Strikes Back at the iPad With New, $140 Kindle
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/amazon-new-kindle/
Excerpt: Jeff Bezos has survived the iPad.
Predictions that Apple’s bright tablet computer would be a Kindle-killer haven’t quite come to pass: Amazon CEO Bezos says that the growth rate in sales of his e-reading device has tripled since June, when he dropped the Kindle price to $189. (Clearly increased competition from other e-readers, like Sony Reader and the Barnes and Noble Nook, hasn’t dampened the Kindle fire, either.) And he’s still kvelling over last week’s announcement that e-book sales on Amazon exceed the number of hardback books sold by the e-commerce site. “And that’s with a device at the end of its product life cycle,” he says.
Article in the NYT
In Price War, New Kindle Sells for $139
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/technology/29kindle.html?_r=1&hp