Amazon publicizes first Kindle ever with colour display, retailing for $279

Amazon on Wednesday introduced a untouched Kindle e-reader, and for the primary presen ever it has a colour show.

The retailing gigantic offered the Kindle in 2007, and each and every software since later has had a black-and-white display. The untouched Kindle has a show that’s designed to safeguard colours don’t seem washed out or pixelated, even if customers zoom in on pictures.

The $279 software, which Amazon is asking the Kindle Colorsoft, has “weeks of battery life,” the corporate stated. It may be preordered now and ships on Oct. 30.

Amazon additionally unveiled a refreshed $399 Kindle Scribe with untouched note-taking options, an up to date $159 Kindle Paperwhite and a twelfth age Kindle, which prices $109. At a press tournament in Unutilized York on Tuesday, Amazon’s units important, Panos Panay, referred to as the updates the “largest single refresh that the Kindle lineup has ever had.”

The Kindle Scribe, which Amazon offered in 2022, comes with a pen that permits customers to pluck notes, produce to-do lists and scribble at once at the pages of the guide they’re studying. With the untouched note-taking attribute, referred to as Energetic Canvas, customers can pluck notes at once on an guide’s pages and the textual content will mechanically shift to tide round it. They’ll additionally be capable of pluck notes within the margins of the guide and conceal them for nearest.

The Kindle Scribe contains some other untouched attribute that makes use of generative synthetic logic to summarize pages of notes right into a concise record. Amazon stated the attribute makes use of Understructure, a tool device that shall we customers get right of entry to immense language fashions from Amazon and alternative firms like Anthropic and Balance AI. The software is to be had for preorder now and ships Dec. 4.

The untouched Kindle Paperwhite is quicker than earlier fashions, and in addition includes a better, 7-inch show, up from 6.8 inches at the prior model. Amazon says the twelfth age Kindle is its maximum “compact” e-reader ever, with a brighter show. Each units are to be had creation Wednesday.