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Originally Posted by log
They will be once Kindle Touch ships, and current supply is exhausted, just not announced yet.
They're not going to want to confuse consumers will 11 different Kindle models for very long.
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I don't think they are afraid of having different models, as they demonstrated today. As the K3/Keyboard fits in nicely with the other e-ink Kindles announced today (and is basically the same generation), I don't see any reason why they would drop it. The fact that they came up with a specific name for it (Keyboard) tells me that they intend for it to have a place in their lineup.
I think that Kindle's plan is to basically blanket the 6" e-ink space with everything people might want. Touch model? Got it! Budget model? Got it! Keyboard model? Right here! It would undercut this strategy to remove the keyboard model, thereby losing those customers who prefer a keyboard. (And there may be a lot of them, since all Kindles until now have had keyboards).