Amazon is launching a cheaper color Kindle

After launching the Kindle Colorsoft past twelvemonth — its archetypal Kindle with a colour surface — Amazon is adding 2 caller iterations of the e-reader to its lineup today: a cheaper Colorsoft with 16GB of retention for $249.99 and a kids-focused bundle for $269.99. The Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition volition inactive beryllium disposable for $279.99. 

“Our customers person loved speechmaking Kindle successful colour — connected average, they walk much clip connected Kindle Colorsoft and work hundreds much pages than connected our different Kindle devices,” the institution says successful a blog post. “That’s wherefore we’re excited to present 2 caller additions to the Kindle Colorsoft family.”

The cheaper Colorsoft costs $30 little than the Signature Edition, but the much costly exemplary has a fewer other perks, including 32GB of storage, an auto-adjusting beforehand light, and wireless charging. The kids-focused bundle, which Amazon is calling Kindle Colorsoft Kids, comes with a Colorsoft (the 16GB model, according to spokesperson Connor Rice), a peculiar screen (you tin prime 1 of 2 options), and 1 twelvemonth of its Amazon Kids Plus subscription.

Shortly aft its release, Amazon concisely paused shipments of the Signature Edition pursuing lawsuit complaints astir a yellowish barroom connected the screen. Amazon present has a connection connected the Signature Edition’s store listing acknowledging that “a tiny fig of customers person reported a yellowish band,” and an Amazon spokesperson told The Verge that the institution made “a operation of bundle and show adjustments” to code the issue.