Jeff Bezos Talks New Kindles and What He's Doing Next

For the last two years, Amazon.com (AMZN) has scraped and clawed its way to a relatively minor position in the exploding tablet market. Its Kindle Fire tablets, which run a heavily customized version of Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system and plug directly into Amazon’s own media and e-commerce services, have set a low threshold for tablet pricing and helped spark a wave of small, 7-inch imitators such as Apple’s (AAPL) iPad Mini.