The big September reveal-a-thon is set to continue tomorrow with some new product announcements courtesy of Amazon, but a rival player in the e-book space is trying to capture some thunder of its own prior to Amazon’s big show. Rakuten-owned Kobo has just officially unveiled a slew of new e-readers (plus an Android tablet, naturally) in an attempt to cement its place as a serious competitor despite its persisting status as an underdog. First up is the $79 Kobo Mini, which sports a 5-inch E-Ink touch display along with 2GB of internal storage (sorry folks, no expandable memory here), WiFi, and Kobo’s now-standard social reading features. Read the full story at Tech Crunch.