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Best-selling author Stephen King has just released a passionate call for greater gun control, titled "Guns." In a coup for Amazon, the essay is available only through its Kindle Store for 99 cents.

"The President of Vice," an e-book that will be released Friday at the Kindle Singles store of Amazon.com, offers a ponytail-wearing, Trans Am-washing version of the vice president familiar to readers of The Onion.

Amazon.com Inc. is expected to unveil a new Kindle Fire on Thursday as it seeks to take a bigger bite of the tablet computer market and boost sales of digital goods like e-books and movies.

Amazon announced Thursday that it has launched a Kindle lending library for owners of its e-reader who are also subscribers to its Amazon Prime service. Prime members can borrow one book a month, with no due dates. Users are allowed to have one book out at a time, the company said in a press release. All notes, bookmarks and highlights made on the borrowed book will still be there if the customer later purchases or re-borrows the book.