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title: "Amazon’s new Kindle Colorsoft costs $289.99, $40 more than before, with an edge-to-edge color screen"
url: https://badiyaa.com/kindle-colorsoft-2026-price-display/
published: 2026-11-14T18:30:00+00:00
modified: 2026-11-14T18:30:00+00:00
section: Tech
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# Amazon’s new Kindle Colorsoft costs $289.99, $40 more than before, with an edge-to-edge color screen

Amazon's new Kindle Colorsoft starts at $289.99, $40 above the 2025 model, with a redesigned edge-to-edge color display and a $319.99 Signature Edition.

Amazon’s new Kindle Colorsoft starts at $289.99, which is $40 more than the color e-reader it replaces, and the company is betting a redesigned edge-to-edge screen is worth it. The Colorsoft Signature Edition climbs to $319.99, also $40 above last year’s version.

The color model leads a fully redesigned Kindle family that also includes a new 6-inch Kindle, a thinner Kindle Paperwhite and kids’ editions. The basic Kindle went on sale right away in 19 countries, including the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, while the Paperwhite and Colorsoft opened for preorder on a rolling basis in the same markets.

## What changed on the Colorsoft

The headline change is the screen. Amazon says every device in the lineup now uses a “reverse stack” display build, which it calls a first for e-readers. In practice that means a flush front with no raised bezel lip around the page, and color that runs to the very edge.

For the Colorsoft specifically, Amazon describes a redesigned display with:

- a light guide using nitride LEDs to boost color and brightness without washing out detail;

- micro-deflectors inside that light guide to cut stray light and even out the glow;

- an oxide backplane with custom waveforms for faster page turns and higher contrast in both color and black-and-white;

- an ultra-thin optical coating to sharpen the image.

The standard model ships with 16 GB in Graphite. The Signature Edition adds an aluminum body, 32 GB, a light that adjusts itself, double tap to turn pages and pogo-pin charging on a dock, in Graphite or Fig.

## The price, model by model

Here is how the color line has moved since it launched. Amazon’s first color Kindle, the Colorsoft Signature Edition, arrived in October 2024 at $279.99. In July 2025 a cheaper 16 GB Colorsoft followed at $249.99, with the Signature Edition still $279.99. The new generation lists at $289.99 and $319.99. That is a rise of 16% on the entry model ($40 on $249.99) and 14% on the Signature Edition ($40 on $279.99).

The extras add up too. The new Page-Turn Cover, a magnetic case with physical buttons, costs $79.99 and only fits the Paperwhite and Colorsoft Signature Editions. The Charging Dock is $59.99. A fully kitted Colorsoft Signature Edition with both lands at $459.97 before tax, against $319.99 for the reader alone.

## The rest of the lineup

The new 6-inch Kindle is the smallest Amazon has made, with 16 GB, up to six weeks of battery and book opening that the company says is 30% faster. It starts at $149.99, or $189.99 with 32 GB and an aluminum back. The Paperwhite starts at $199.99 and promises up to 12 weeks per charge. Kids versions of all three start at $179.99 and include a year of Kids+.

Amazon also added Kindle Click, a $34.99 Bluetooth page-turn remote that works with the new devices and any Kindle from 2024 onward.

The company says Kindle has grown by double digits worldwide for three years running, with more than 720 billion pages read in 2025. Amazon has been busy elsewhere this month too, giving Prime members [$0 Uber Eats delivery on $25 orders in the US](https://badiyaa.com/amazon-prime-uber-eats-delivery-perk/). More gadget news is on our [Tech page](https://badiyaa.com/category/tech/).

The kids’ Colorsoft is on preorder in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and Japan only.

## Further reading

- [Wikipedia: Amazon Kindle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle)

*Image: Jacek Halicki, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons*

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