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New tablet for reading books from Amazon will cost the country £ 479. Photo: Amazon / Handout

Amazon announced on Thursday (12/12) that the new Kindle Paperwhite is now available in Brazil. With higher contrast screen, built new-generation lighting, faster processor and new features, the pioneering digital reader comes to the domestic market at a price of £ 479 (with connection via wi-fi). The manufacturer says that the main advantages of the new Kindle over other tablets that also offer the option of e-reader is battery life, which can reach up to eight weeks, and lighting suitable for the apparatus can be used under intense sunlight.

“The Kindle is the bestselling e-reader in the world for six consecutive years and is now even better,” said Alex Szapiro, director of Amazon in Brazil. According to him, the reader is one of the lightest on the market – 213 grams – for the reading to be comfortable with the use of only one hand

“The new model offers applications like Kindle Page Flip. which lets you browse and spend page after page without leaving the point where he was, and Vocabulary Builder, who keeps the words searched in the dictionary for the reader to study them later. We are happy to bring the new Kindle Paperwhite for Brazilian consumers, “he said.

The Director explained that the new version of e-reader combines best hardware, a wider selection of books, competitive prices and features attractive reading. “So that anyone who has read four times more Kindle books – both print and eBooks – than when the device was not”. Highlighted Szapiro

There are more than 2 million shares – about 26 thousand in Portuguese – including bestsellers published recently. And the prices vary. Approximately 400,000 securities are priced to $ 4.99, and more than a million of them out for up to £ 9.99.

On the same machine, fit more than a thousand publications, but cloud storage is automatic for consumers to re-download your books from the internet at any time, for free. The new equipment also allows the sharing of recommendations, featured snippets and quotes on the social networks Facebook and Twitter.