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Apple's alleged Kindle-killing tablet appears to be on the runway for a spring 2010 takeoff. And in what may or may not be related news, two top-drawer US publishers are holding back ebooks of dozens of their upcoming major titles until the same time ...

Barnes & Noble launched an eBookstore offering more than 700,000 titles readable on multiple platforms, including the iPhone, BlackBerry and Plastic Logic eReader. Kindle, beware?

Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle's lead will become a very short story.