The new Kindle was briefly on sale and it hasn’t even been announced yet

Amazon hasn’t officially announced the adjacent procreation of its Kindle e-readers yet, but pursuing leaks of respective models, the UK retailer John Lewis was already selling the 12th-gen entry-level Kindle and the caller Kindle Kids Edition done its website earlier today, arsenic spotted by Good e-Reader. Both listings person since been taken down.

The 12th-gen Kindle Paperwhite precocious popped up successful an eBay listing that has besides been taken down, and which included images of the caller e-reader’s packaging revealing insignificant upgrades specified arsenic a slightly larger seven-inch E Ink screen.

John Lewis’ listing for the 12th-gen entry-level Kindle exemplary appeared to corroborate leaked details from September. According to those leaks, the upgraded e-reader volition person a six-inch, 300ppi E Ink surface with a higher opposition ratio that’s illuminated by a beforehand airy that’s present 25 percent brighter astatine its max setting. However, the caller entry-level Kindle’s beforehand airy volition inactive deficiency the colour somesthesia adjustments you get with the Kindle Paperwhite and other pricier E Ink devices from Amazon.

According to the listing, the 12th-gen Kindle besides introduces a caller acheronian mode that inverts its achromatic and achromatic E Ink surface for easier speechmaking successful the dark, offers faster leafage turns, and volition travel with 16GB of storage. John Lewis had listed the caller e-reader for £94.99, which is astir $124.

The store’s listing for the 12th-gen Amazon Kindle Kids Edition had the aforesaid specs arsenic the 12th-gen entry-level Kindle, with brighter backlighting and an E Ink surface offering amended contrast. As with past versions of the Kindle Kids Edition, the 12th-gen exemplary comes with a case, an extended 2 twelvemonth warranty, a subscription to Amazon Kids+ featuring ebooks and audiobooks targeted astatine kids, and a dashboard with parental controls. Pricing was £114.99, oregon astir $150.

Previous versions of the Amazon Kindle Kids Edition came with a 1 twelvemonth subscription to Amazon Kids+ (even successful the UK), but John Lewis’ listing said the 12th-gen exemplary lone comes with a six-month subscription to the service. After that, monthly plans commencement astatine $5.99/month for Amazon Prime members, oregon $7.99 without.