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Now Live on the Web: This Week’s Kindle Nation WEEKENDER, including all the info you need on the $199 Kindle Fire, the $99/$149 Kindle Touch, and the new $79 Kindle!
In This Issue
- They’re Here, and They’re Gamechangers! Amazon Announces Four New Kindles at Stunning Prices, Including a $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, a $99 Kindle Touch, and a New $79 Kindle Base Model
- Links to More Information on the New Kindles
- The Kindle Touch At a Glance
- The Kindle Fire at a Glance
- Kindle Nation Briefs and Bargains – October 1, 2011
- Over 1,100 Free Kindle Books, Sponsored by Sandra Balzo’s UNCOMMON GROUNDS
They’re Here, and They’re Gamechangers!
Amazon Announces Four New Kindles at Stunning Prices, Including a $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, a $99 Kindle Touch, and a New $79 Kindle Base Model
By Steve Windwalker
October 1, 2011
Amazon held a press conference in New York Wednesday morning, and Kindle Nation was well represented by correspondent Len Edgerly of The Kindle Chronicles, who provided our readers with a live blog of a truly dazzling event marked by the launch of four brand new Kindles — include the new Kindle Fire tablet — at prices that shocked us all.
One of the recurring themes from Jeff Bezos and other Amazon spokespersons this week has been these new Kindles are high-end products at low-end prices. And just to put a punctuation mark on that value proposition, although I am not going to attempt a direct comparison of the iPad and the Kindle Fire until I have both units in my hands, I will say this: I spent $599 for my 32GB wi-fi only iPad (plus another $100+ on sales tax and accessories), but I just bought all four of the new Kindle models released this week for a grand total of $526. That’s a family of Kindles that will keep my entire household busy feeding their brains.
It will be interesting to see how things develop with regard to usage patterns between the Kindle Fire tablet and the three new Kindles to which Amazon refers as a dedicated readers. But two things are clear from the start:
- The Fire is going to be a huge success, and it has already taken over the #1 bestseller spot in the entire Amazon Store.
- The Fire will leverage and be leveraged by every other product sold by Amazon to an unparalleled extent, as witnessed by its placement across the top not only of the website’s front page, which is nothing new for a Kindle device, but across all of Amazon’s main pages for print books, ebooks, music, tv and movies, and apps.
There’s a lot of information to share with you, but we’re going to try to strip it down and proceed from the simple to the sublime, with links to more information and video for those who want to read more.
In that spirit, let’s begin with a very simple comparison chart for the hardware Kindle models that were unveiled Wednesday:
COMPARING THE NEW KINDLES
| Model | Kindle* | Kindle Touch* | Kindle Fire |
| Price | $79.00 | $99/$149 | $199.00 |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi | $99 Wi-Fi Only; $149 Free 3G+Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi |
| Release Date | Avail. now | 11/21/2011 | 11/15/2011 |
| Covered by 30-day no-hassle return policy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Content | Millions ofbooks, newspapers,
magazines, games, and docs |
Millions ofbooks, newspapers,
magazines, games, and docs |
18 million movies,TV shows, apps,
games, songs, books, newspapers, audiobooks, magazines, and docs |
| Web browser | Experimentalbrowser | Experimentalbrowser | Amazon Silk cloud-accelerated browser |
| Display | 6″ E Ink Pearl | 6″ E Ink Pearl | 7″ Vibrant Color IPS |
| Battery Life | 1 month | 2 months | 8 hours continuous reading or
7.5 hours video playback |
| Cloud storage | Free for allAmazon content | Free for allAmazon content | Free for allAmazon content |
| Dimensions | 6.5″ x 4.5″
x 0.34″ |
6.8″ x 4.7″x 0.40″ | 7.5″ x 4.7″x 0.45″ |
| Weight | 5.98 ounces | 7.5/7.8 ounces | 14.6 ounces |
| Interface | 5-way controller | multi-touch | multi-touch |
| *Models with Special Offers | Kindle | Kindle Touch | Not yet |
| *Prices with Special Offers | $79.00 | $99/$149 | Not yet |
| *Models without Special Offers | Kindle | Kindle Touch | Kindle Fire |
| *Prices without Special Offers | $109.00 | $139/$189 | $199.00 |
Oops, here’s a late addition: The Kindle Touch has Text-to-Speech, but the Kindle Fire and the $79 base model Kindle do not.