I’ve seen a shocking variety of individuals saying they assume that Amazon may very well be exiting the ereader market due to the truth that most Kindles are presently out of inventory and unavailable to buy from a number of Amazon web sites across the globe.
The bottom Kindle has been unavailable for the previous month, and now the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Scribe are briefly provide as effectively, and with no announcement from Amazon about any new Kindles popping out, individuals are beginning to bounce to conclusions.
For the report, I’m not in that camp. I don’t assume Amazon is within the strategy of discontinuing Kindles. I can see why individuals would assume that, particularly with Hearth tablets being extra inexpensive and extra fashionable than Kindles, and with most Kindle sub-models being unavailable to buy with none replacements throughout a few of Amazon’s busiest purchasing days of the yr with Prime Massive Deal Days underway.
I believe it’s only a matter of dangerous timing. I believe it’s extra probably there was some sort of delay that set again the discharge date of recent Kindles later than anticipated. Perhaps the software program wasn’t prepared or there was a provide subject someplace within the chain, however I don’t assume Amazon goes to cease promoting Kindles anytime quickly.
First off, there are the two new units that turned up on the FCC. There’s no assure they’re Kindles, however they’re described as an “Digital Show Gadget”. That might imply lots of issues, however when you return by means of earlier FCC listings, that very same precise description was used for what we now know is the 2022 Kindle, primarily based on the product ID quantity.
Secondly, a number of the hyperlinks have began to alter on the primary Kindle web page at Amazon that now result in “Web page Not Discovered” screens, indicating they’re engaged on issues behind the scenes.
One factor that’s bizarre about this entire situation is the truth that Amazon normally declares new Kindles a couple of month earlier than they get launched (with the Scribe it was 2 months). They normally settle for pre-orders up till launch day, and everyone is aware of new Kindles are coming.
Why they haven’t introduced any new fashions but is a bit puzzling, particularly when the older fashions are largely gone. Why are they holding again? There’s positively one thing off about the way in which Amazon is dealing with issues this time round, however I don’t assume it means they’re planning to section out Kindles completely.
Perhaps large adjustments are in retailer with some new colour Kindles popping out and Amazon is attempting to maintain issues quiet, or perhaps the adjustments on the brand new fashions are so minor they aren’t value creating any hype over (just like the leak that means the new entry-level Kindle has a brighter frontlight and that’s about it for adjustments).
Both method, the wait continues. However I most positively count on to see some new Kindles launched sooner or later in 2024. It is unnecessary for Amazon to cease promoting Kindles, even when their iOS and Android apps are extra fashionable by a large margin.
