 After 17 long years, Amazon's Kindle is back as a new must-have tech device. Yeah, it's a shocker. I'm Kim Commando for NetSuite. Attention business owners, get a one-of-a-kind flexible financing program at netsuite.com slash kim. When Amazon released the first Kindle reader in November of 2007, they sold out in just five hours. It took five months to replenish the inventory.