For those of you who are fans of Amazon’s Kindle (and I think that probably applies to a lot of people), this news is likely to be of interest to you. It has been rumoured that Amazon is getting ready to launch a new backlit version of the Kindle – a step that makes sense when you consider that e-reader rivals Nook as well as tablet competitors like Google and Apple have already released backlit devices.

This news has yet to be confirmed, but if you take a look at this post as well as this other post, it seems that some moves may well be afoot and it might not be all that long before we see a new Kindle (or even more than one) hit the shelves – in the US at least. Either way, that’s a development certainly worth keeping our eyes peeled for.

Recent UK figures from Amazon show that the site is now selling 114 ebooks for every 100 print books it sells, so the Kindle is clearly big business on both sides of the pond, and readers are sure to be keen to learn of any upgrades or new models of the popular ereader that are due to be released. Even though it might be a while before any new models are released, the popularity of the device and ebooks in general suggest this is definitely something worth keeping abreast of.