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Staples Executive Outs Six New Kindle Fire Tablets

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 23, 2012 @02:20AM from the around-the-corner dept.

zacharye writes "Staples (SPLS) president Demos Parneros has gone on record in stating that Amazon (AMZN) has plans to introduce as many as six new Kindle Fire tablets. A new report on Monday says that Amazon has plans to add up to five or six new tablet SKUs to its lineup. According to the claim, Parneros confirmed that the Kindle Fire tablets will vary in size, and will include at least one 10-inch tablet model."

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Someone does not know what a SKU is by h4rr4r · 2012-07-23 02:43 · Score: 5, Informative

6 SKUs could easily be only one or two products.
The Nook 7 has two SKUs, we don't call them difference devices.
SKUs not the same as products by SpleenVenter · 2012-07-23 04:18 · Score: 4, Informative

A separate SKU (stock-keeping unit, a fancy term for "part number") will exist for each sellable configuration of a product. Saying that there will be "five or six" SKUs could easily mean only two separate models, say a 7" and 10" with three memory configurations each.