Amazon India announces Christmas discount offer for Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite - NDTV

This festive season, Amazon India is out with a Christmas special discounted offer on its e-reader range – the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite 3G and Wi-Fi models

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The offer from December 20, and continues till December 25. The Kindle tablet range on offer can be purchased on the Amazon portal India, and is also available at over 200 retail outlets across India-including Croma, Reliance Digital, E-Zone, and UniverCell Vijay Sales stores.

The Kindle e-reader price on the website under the special offer is Rs. 4,999 (from the regular Rs. 5,999 listing price), Whereas the Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi model is for Rs. 9,999 (down from Rs. 10,999) and Paperwhite 3G model is for Rs. 11,999 (down from Rs. 13,999).

The Kindle e-reader features a 6-inch E-Ink Pearl display with a pixel density of 167 ppi, and weighs 170 grams. Apart from 2GB of built-in storage, it features free cloud storage for all Amazon content. It’s battery is rated to deliver a standby time of a month, with wireless connectivity off.

The Kindle Paperwhite features a 6-inch display packing Paperwhite-in 212 ppi and displaying 16 level gray scale. The Paperwhite display is Essentially a front-lit display Light That Guides underneath an anti-glare layer and down toward the display, away from the reader’s eyes-allowing readers to read with less eye fatigue and strain. Amazon claims That the e-reader offers 25 percent higher contrast for sharp, dark text and packs in 62 percent more pixels for higher resolution. The screen’s brightness can be adjusted for reading in different light conditions.

The Kindle Paperwhite sports a 2-point multi-touch display Eliminating the need for physical buttons. It comes with 2GB of internal storage space out of 1.25GB All which is available to the user, capable of holding around 1100 books. It also offers free cloud storage for all content (books and magazines) purchased from Amazon.

The Kindle Paperwhite is lightweight at 213 grams, and promises a battery life of eight weeks with the front light on when Wi-Fi / 3G connections are turned off. The White Paper’s built-in Wi-Fi allows users to purchase and download books from the Kindle store directly through the e-reader.

The Kindle Paperwhite usefull features an experimental WebKit-based browser for casual web browsing.