TechCrunch reports that Amazon.com has sold some 240,000 Kindle units since the Kindle was introduced to the market in November 2007.  It also speculates in a posting entitled “Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008” that a new Kindle model will hit the stores in time for the holiday season.  It looks like the Kindle is becoming a permanent part of the book-reading world.

One financial analyst speculates that the Amazon Kindle will do for ebooks what the iPod did for digital music — expand the market enormously.  According to this analyst, Amazon.com could sell more than $2.5 billion in eBooks by 2012.  That’s a lot of eBooks!  And, that’s not even taking into account any boost sales might be by the introduction of an Amazon Kindle 2.0 at some later point.

Already a number of commentators are setting out their wish list for the next version of Kindle. Here are the ones Brad Stone of the New York Times would like to see.

The Casting Out Nines blog offers nine ways to fix the Amazon Kindle. Read it here.

How long will it be before Kindle 2.0 makes its appearance (even though demand for Kindle 1.0 hasn’t yet been satisfied)?