The battle by e-readers is heating up rapidly, thanks to new hardware entries from the world’s two leading e-book manufacturers and the surprising popularity of e-book software on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. Although the total number of e-books is still well short of a separate Steven King press run, the next-generation devices point to a steadily maturing market for digital literature.

On Friday, Sony announced the latest version of its e-reader, the Sony PRS-700 Reader. The device will be

released next month and will cost approximately $400.

The many gadget blogs on the Web are additionally speculating that Amazon is about to announce the release an updated Kindle, and a few purported photos of the device have even been posted on sites like Engadget and Boy Genius Report. However, there is no word from Amazon about when a Kindle 2.0 might hit the market.

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