[Steven630]

I'm a native Chinese living in Shanghai. In China, besides amazon.cn, the official Amazon China website, jd.com (formerly 360buy, an electronic commerce website) and Suning.com (another B2C platform operated by Suning, a large retailer of electronics appliances) also sell the electronic reader. Today, when I checked out the website of JD and Sunning, I found that neither had kindle in stock, which is very strange. And I read another thread by a Chinese netizen, who went to Suning's physical store to buy a kpw2, saying that a kindle seller there told him that kpw2 was out of stock and that the new version might come out at the end of this month. Details of kpw3 are not known yet, but the storage has been expanded to 4g again. On taobao.com, a website similar to eBay and Amazon, a few sellers talk of pre-ordering kpw3 and delivering the new device in two weeks. I contacted one and asked him why the official website keeps silent. He just replied "very soon".

Of course, this might just be another rumor. After all, there has been rumor that the device was to come by Q2, which has long passed. I bought kpw2 a month ago and may regret the decision if my guess turns out to be right. I just hope the release of kpw3 may let old kpw users customize fonts (probably through a new firmware update).

UPDATE: Rumors abound that the new device is just an enhanced version of the current KPW2, with no change other than the 4G storage.