Thread: $110 Says All the New Kindles Are Coming Next Week
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Old 08-18-2012, 07:54 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by Solicitous View Post
Oh forgot to add, currently there is the K4, K-Touch and K-Keyboard. Surely with all three in stock Amazon wouldn't release a 4th Kindle right now. I could be wrong but to me it seems they'd be flooding their own market with multiples of their own devices competing.
There is at least one new FIRE on the way (probably 2, maybe 3) and a 90% certainty of a front-lit eink model.

Just consider that Amazon sells eight to ten million eink Kindles a year and have moved 6 million FIREs so far. That kind of volume allows for differentiation to address different user preferences; some folks *like* keyboards; others prefer Cheap & basic, small-and-light; while others prefer touch screens. (And let's not get into WiFi vs 3G.)

One reason why Amazon sells eight to ten million kindles a year is *because* they have so many variants; you can have it (more or less) your way.
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