Thursday, December 19, 2013

Amazon launches in Brazil e-reader Kindle Paperwhite - Yahoo News Brazil

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in Brazil Amazon launches Kindle e-reader Paperwhite

By Ligia Aguilhar

São Paulo, 18 (AE) – Brazil Amazon started selling the Kindle Paperwhite Country the new, more advanced version of the book reader and the company that is for sale in the United States since September

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release presents new display technology with higher contrast, updated version of the built-in lighting system, 25% faster processor and touch technology with precision 19% greater.

The device also has built-in Wi-Fi, battery with eight weeks long and new features, like the vocabulary builder, which compiles a list words that you searched in a dictionary, and a search system that integrates dictionary to Wikipedia.

The new Kindle Paperwhite will sell for R $ 479 in Pontofrio, Extra Giraffe and sites, and the Village Bookstore. In the United States, the model retails for $ 199. “It will be a year we launched our operation in Brazil and our products have enjoyed a growing membership, including by users of tablets,” says the director general of the Amazon in Brazil, Alex Szapiro. The company does not disclose numbers, but the officer said that the simplest model, called Kindle is the most popular among Brazilians because of the price of R $ 299.

In March, two other models were released in the country: the previous version of the Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi, which will be discontinued with the launch of the new device, and the Kindle Paperwhite 3G, which goes on sale for R $ 699 <. / p>

Amazon continues to adopt a different Kindle sales in Brazil, restricted to physical and virtual stores partner, unlike the American parent company, which sells the device directly on the company website template. “Our plans are to include new partners soon, including a new large retailer will announce before Christmas,” says Szapiro.

release tablets in the country also did not materialize. The Kindle Fire tablet launched in the U.S. in November 2011 and can serve as the basis for Amazon to sell digital products such as movies, did not arrive until today to Brazil.

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– R $ 479 is the price of the new electronic book reader from Amazon Kindle Paperwhite in Brazil

– $ 199 is the amount charged for the same model in the U.S.

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