Amazon launches surprise new Kindle but the price | Tech News

Amazon has stunned studying followers in the present day by including two Kindle e-readers to its line up, though upon nearer inspection they aren’t fairly as new as you may anticipate. The firm introduced a model of its color screen Kindle Colorsoft with much less storage, and a Colorsoft Kids that comes with Amazon’s youngsters’s studying subscription and a protecting case.

The Colorsoft Signature Edition was Amazon’s first ever color Kindle, launching back in October of final 12 months to middling critiques as a result of of show points and a high price of £269.99.

Today’s new Colorsoft halves the authentic’s 32GB storage to 16GB, but nonetheless prices a hefty £239.99, £80 more than the Kindle Paperwhite and £145 more than the base Kindle. It’s solely £30 much less than the Colorsoft Signature Edition, but additionally lacks that model’s auto-adjusting entrance mild and wi-fi charging, much like the variations between the Kindle Paperwhite and Paperwhite Signature Edition.

“The new 16 GB model of Kindle Colorsoft has everything customers love about Kindle in colour —a high contrast Colorsoft display, fast page turns, an adjustable warm light, weeks of battery life, and access to the incredible Kindle bookstore,” Amazon stated in a press release.

“Readers can browse covers in colour in their Kindle Library, experience graphic novels coming to life in colour, see book photos and images in colour, or add highlights in yellow, orange, blue, and pink which can be filtered through later. Plus, for customers who prefer to read on pages with a dark background, the new Page Colour feature will invert the black text and white backgrounds of the pages inside books.”

Although you may make highlights, the Colorsoft will not be suitable with any pen or stylus – that’s reserved for Amazon’s very dear Kindle Scribe vary.

If you’d relatively decide up a Kindle Colorsoft in your baby, now you can select the Kindle Colorsoft Kids, a model of the new 16GB Colorsoft that comes with a 12 months’s subscription to Amazon Kids+, the Kindle subscription studying service that solely permits appropriate content material for kids. Parents and guardians can handle content material on the Kindle by way of a Parent Dashboard online to review studying exercise and set a machine’s bedtime so your little ones can’t learn too long into the night time.

The Colorsoft Kids comes with a alternative of two protecting cowl circumstances and has software program options resembling Vocabulary Builder and Word Wise to help children be taught and skim.

Both the new Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Colorsoft Kids can be found to buy from Amazon now.