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Staples Executive Outs Six New Kindle Fire Tablets

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Snubbed by BigBunion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Something tells me that Staples was angling to carry the new devices in their stores but then got snubbed by Amazon. Ouch.

    1. Re:Snubbed by P-niiice · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Your limited on what you can do with the tablet. This is fine if you're really, really into Amazon and don't get movies from varied sources, for example. As an Android tablet, it's severely crippled.

    2. Re:Snubbed by Dishevel · · Score: 3, Insightful

      if i'm going to buy something new ereader is going to be my #1 feature and that goes to kindle.

      If that is the #1 feature. Should you not be looking at the regular Kindle or the Nook? You know something with a incredibly readable E-Ink screen.
      Or are you willing to throw your "Number One Feature" feature out the door for "Color".
      If that is the case then I believe that "Color" is your number one feature.
      You can thank me later.

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    3. Re:Snubbed by cpu6502 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Notice he said "SKUs". The SKU number is always added to computers a few months before the actual item arrives at the store, so they have time to (1) set a price and (2) order it for their inventory.

      Just to pick a random example: My store used to start ordering summer bikinis in October/November, and they arrived in December. Which is why there's always a post-christmas clearance; to make room in the stockroom for all these bikinis and other summer goods.

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  2. 6 new Kindle tablets by GameboyRMH · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1 geek news site
    0 fucks given

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  3. Someone does not know what a SKU is by h4rr4r · · 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.

  4. Snuff the Fire, what about eInk? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All these posts about the July release have been Kindle Fire this and Kindle Fire that, but is everyone forgetting about the REAL Kindle? You know, the one that actually has a good eInk screen? There's bound to be at least one model with a frontlit screen (like the Nook), but what I really want is a non-touchscreen one. I doubt it will happen because they think people only want the button version because it's the cheapest, but the perfect model to me would be one in the same form factor as the current K4 with buttons, WITH 3G (so annoying to not have it after being used to the Kindle 2 and Kindle 3), and with the frontlight

  5. Non-vendor-locked tablets are better deals by walterbyrd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When the Kindle Fire first came out, it was a decent tablet, for the price - even if it was crippled, and you were vendor-locked by Amazon.

    Today, with great tablets, like the Nexus 7, so inexpense, why bother with proprietary, crippled, vendor-locked devices?

  6. SKUs not the same as products by SpleenVenter · · 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.