Meet the All-New Kindle Oasis: Featuring a 7-inch, 300 ppi Display and Waterproof Design

Our largest, highest-resolution Paperwhite display with crisp, laser-quality text that reads like paper with no glare—even in bright sunlight

Thin and light design with an aluminum back and a unique ergonomic shape so you can read comfortably for hours

The first waterproof Kindle so you can take your favorite stories even more places

Read books your way—more options than ever before to personalize your ideal reading settings with font sizes, additional boldness levels, and new accessibility features

SEATTLE, WA, Oct. 11, 2017 /CNW/ - (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Today, Amazon announced its most advanced Kindle ever—the all-new Kindle Oasis, featuring our largest, highest-resolution Paperwhite display and a thin and light ergonomic design so you can read more comfortably for hours. The all-new Kindle Oasis is the first waterproof (IPX8) Kindle allowing you to read in even more places, from the bath to the swimming pool. The all-new Kindle Oasis has a battery life measured in weeks, not hours—and it includes a fast-charging capability that allows it to go from no battery to fully charged in less than two hours. The all-new Kindle Oasis is available for pre-order today at www.amazon.ca/KindleOasis for only $389.99 and will start shipping October 31.

The All-New Kindle Oasis (CNW Group/Amazon.ca)

"Ten years ago, we introduced our first Kindle with the mission of delivering any book ever written in 60 seconds or less," said Dave Limp, Senior Vice President, Amazon Devices and Services. "With a larger 7-inch, 300 ppi display and waterproof design, the all-new Kindle Oasis is our most advanced Kindle ever. It's thin, light, and waterproof design allows readers to stay engaged in the author's world in even more places than ever before."

Designed for comfort and personalization
With a larger 7-inch, 300 ppi display, the all-new Kindle Oasis fits over 30 per cent more words per page for fewer page turns. Plus, it has the fastest page turns of any Kindle. The crisp, laser-quality text reads like paper with uniform display lighting and no glare, even in bright sunlight. The ergonomic design shifts the center of gravity to your palm so the device rests in your hand like the spine of a book, no matter which hand you chose to read with. You can easily turn pages with dedicated page turn buttons and the display will automatically rotate the page orientation whether you hold it with your left or right hand.

The device's unique shape tapers to an ultrathin 3.4 mm display featuring our strongest cover glass and a new aluminum back. The all-new Kindle Oasis is thin, light and durable—in fact, even with a larger display, the all-new Kindle Oasis weighs only 194 grams, 10 grams less than the best-selling Kindle Paperwhite.

The first waterproof Kindle
No more soggy pages with the all-new Kindle Oasis—it's IPX8 rated to protect against immersion in up to two meters of fresh water for up to 60 minutes. Plus, it's designed to withstand getting splashed at the beach or dropped in the bath tub, hot tub, or pool.

Larger storage capacity for more great content
The all-new Kindle Oasis comes with two storage options—8 GB, which has twice the storage as the first Kindle Oasis, and can hold thousands of titles; and 32 GB, allowing you to store even more rich content with large file sizes, like Audible audiobooks, comics, newspapers, magazines, and more.

Personalized comfort—read your book your way
There are more ways to personalize your ideal reading settings on Kindle Oasis than ever before so you can enjoy your book the way you prefer:

• New Font Size and Bold Settings: Now choose from more font sizes than ever before—and five levels of boldness—for whichever font you choose to read with. Combined with the new, 7-inch Paperwhite display, you can personalize your books so it's perfectly comfortable for your eyes.
• New Accessibility Options: In addition to the OpenDyslexic font, we've added a feature to invert black and white on the display if you have light sensitivity. And the new enlarged display option lets you increase the size of items like the text on the home screen and library as well as the book icons to make the all-new Kindle Oasis easier to read.
• Light Settings: Built-in ambient light sensors automatically adjust the display to your surroundings whether you're in a dimly-lit room or outside in the sun—and can be fine-tuned even further based on personal preferences.
• Ragged Right Alignment: You can now read using left-aligned (ragged right) text.

Starting today, the new size and bold settings as well as ragged right alignment will be delivered as a free, over-the-air update to Kindle Paperwhite (Gen 6 released in 2013) and newer Kindle devices.

Eligible customers enjoy unlimited access to over one million titles with Kindle Unlimited
With the Kindle Unlimited subscription, eligible customers can access over a million Kindle books for just $9.99 after a 30-day free trial. Available on any Kindle device, including the all-new Kindle Oasis and on the free Kindle reading app, as a member of Kindle Unlimited, you may read Kindle books from a designated list of titles an unlimited number of times and there are no due dates.

All the features readers love about Kindle
By design, Kindle e-readers are purpose-built for reading so you can lose yourself in a book. Unlike tablets and phones, a Kindle has no glare–even in bright sunlight—and won't distract you with social media, emails, text messages, notifications, and more. The all-new Kindle Oasis includes all of the features that have made the Kindle family the best devices for reading, enhancing the experience beyond a print book:

• Whispersync and Whispersync for Voice—Saves and synchronizes your last page read, bookmarks, and annotations from your Kindle eBook across all of your Kindle devices and apps, so you can always pick up where you left off on any device.
• Worry-free archive—Automatically backs up your Kindle books in the cloud so you never need to worry about losing your books—re-download your books wirelessly anytime for free.
• Goodreads—Kindle is integrated with the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, with over 50 million members, 1.3 billion books added, and 47 million book reviews.
• X-Ray—Explore the "Bones of the Book"—see all of the passages across a book that mention relevant ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places, or topics of interest.
• Word Wise—Available on many popular English language titles, Word Wise makes it easier to enjoy and quickly understand more challenging books. Short and simple definitions automatically appear above difficult words, so you can keep reading with fewer interruptions.
• Time to Read—Tells you how much time it will take to finish a chapter or a book based on your personalized reading speed.
• Vocabulary Builder—Compiles words you look up in the dictionary into an easy-to-access list. Use these lists to quiz yourself with flashcards and instantly see words in context.
• Share your favorite passages—Share book recommendations, highlighted sections, and meaningful quotes with friends via Facebook and Twitter.
• Smart Lookup—Integrates a full dictionary definition with other reference information via X-Ray and Wikipedia.
• Kindle FreeTime—Gives parents a simple, engaging way to encourage kids to spend more time reading. Hand-select books for your kids to read, and achievement badges are earned when they hit reading milestones.

World's Best eBook Store
Kindle e-readers come with instant access to the Kindle Store, which includes:

• Massive selection—Millions of books, newspapers and magazines, including the latest best sellers, Kindle Singles, and more.
• Kindle Unlimited—Our premium reading subscription is a great choice for readers who want even more. Kindle Unlimited offers over one million books, audiobooks, magazines, comics, kids' books and more—all for $9.99 after a 30-day free trial for eligible customers.
• Kindle exclusives—Over one million books are exclusive to the Kindle Store.

Pricing and Availability
The all-new Kindle Oasis is $389.99 for the 8 GB model, which comes with Wi-Fi, and $489.99 for the 32 GB model, which comes with Wi-Fi and free cellular connectivity. All are available today for pre-order globally. Customers can also purchase a cover with a thin design that snaps perfectly onto the all-new Kindle Oasis and transforms into a stand for hands-free reading. The cover opens like a book, automatically waking the device when opened and putting it to sleep when closed. Choose from two materials in a variety of colours: water-safe fabric covers, all $54.99, come in Indigo, Sandstone, or Charcoal; and premium leather covers, all $69.99, come in Midnight, Saddle Tan, or Merlot. The covers fold into a stand to easily enable hands-free reading. Customers can learn more at www.amazon.ca/KindleOasis.

About Amazon
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SOURCE Amazon.ca

Andrew Gouveia, NATIONAL Public Relations, 416-848-1385