Amazon News in Brief: Skateboarders, Acquisitions, and Next Gen Kindle Fire Details

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Here’s some important Amazon news that’s been floating around over the past day or so.

• Amazon Said to Add Social Features for Tablet Digital Games at Newsweek

• Google challenges Amazon, Apple with $199 tablet at Boston Globe

• Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Among Backers Pumping $6M Into Photo-Editing Start-Up Aviary at AllThingsD

• Amazon Publishing likely to acquire troubled Dorchester’s backlist at paidContent

• Amazon prepping two new Kindle Fire tablets with improved build, metal casing at BGR

• Amazon Looks to Sports Sponsorship to Boost Sales at Wall Street Journal

• Media store wars: iTunes vs Amazon vs Google Play at GigaOM