Staples Executive Outs Six New Kindle Fire Tablets

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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Snubbed

[BigBunion]

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

Someone does not know what a SKU is

[h4rr4r]

6 SKUs could easily be only one or two products.
The Nook 7 has two SKUs, we don't call them difference devices.

Snuff the Fire, what about eInk?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Non-vendor-locked tablets are better deals

[walterbyrd]

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?