http://www.amazon.com/kindle2 As of June 21, 2010, Amazon has lowered the price of their Kindle eReader to $189, apparently so that it is $10 less than the Barnes and Noble "Nook" color eReader. At the end of 2009 Amazon.com released a newer Kindle eReader, the "Kindle 2.0". Like Amazon's Kindle 1.0 released in 2008(???), the Kindle 2 has a 6" (high) black and white screen, but better positioned (and I, the site PI, presume easier to use) physical buttons mounted on the case. It probably also has better "virutal buttons", i.e. the graphic buttons displayed on the display-screen's touch-pad user-interface. (NEED THE NUMBER OF BOOKS AND PAGES STORABLE ON KINDLE-2.) With the announcement of Kindle 2, Amazon declared it is consolidating it's (2 product) family of 6" Kindles. (NEED DESCRIPTION OF WHAT CONSOLIDATION MEANS TO AMAZON.) The new Kindle (Kindle 2.0) has 3G wireless connectivity to the Internet (a cell-phone-type connection) that works in the United States and also globally in over 100 countries. Amazon deployed Kindle 1.0 in 2008(?) with it's own proprietary "Whispernet" wireless connection to the Internet from which Kindle 1.0 users could download eBooks purchased online to their Kindle device. Deploying their proprietary, non-standard, not widely used "Whispernet" in a much larger wireless device market using WiFi (a/b/g and now n), 3G and now 4G standards, was a sign of very bad technical judgement, in this PI's opinion. With Kindle 2, Amazon declared that they will continue to fully support Whispernet for all U.S.-only Kindles (version 1). At their Amazon.com web site one can buy used and refurbished versions of the U.S.-only Kindle, version 1 and version 2.