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Originally Posted by Pjama
Yesss, I knew it! However, the kindle being unwrapped in the picture clearly has a masssove top bezel, so it docen't look as if this will be for me. Still exciting though, and less than a week away! But, why China first?
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This rumor got me to finally remember to register for Mobileread
This is a really odd rumor/report. I'm really not sure what to make of it.
The link everybody's posted to support the report is to a Chinese website. The image doesn't appear on either the Amazon.com or Kindle pages on Weibo.
If the Google translation of the post on that site is accurate (always a dubious assumption), it doesn't claim Amazon's going to announce a new Kindle on October 17. However, if you go to that Chinese website's home page and do the automatic Google translation, it does have a headline that claims "the Digital Tail" and "Ai Farner" posted a microblog (presumably on Weibo?) with the image and the other details about the event on October 17.
This one is extremely odd. Especially because the bezel in the image looks bigger than the current Paperwhite. I hate to be a Debby Downer, but I think it's probably more likely that Amazon's either introducing the Paperwhite 3 into China or they're releasing a new version of the "Kindle Migu." The Migu is an e-ink device Amazon released specifically in China in June 2017. In addition to purchasing ebooks from Amazon, it lets Chinese readers purchase books from Migu, an ebook store run by the Chinese government owned company China Mobile.