Amazon's Kindle Event

I was out all day today so I missed all the excitement, so if you haven’t heard about it already today, Amazon had their Kindle Event where they announced a bunch of new toys (that you can see on the front page of Amazon):

• 9” Kindle Fire HD with 4G networking for $499 or $299 wifi only
• Kindle Paperwhite (a 3G model as well) starting at $119 with whiter whites and blacker blacks
• Boring old kindle price is down to $69

All in all good looking, though as a Canadian we don’t get any of the amazon services up here, so the only type of kindle I see are the e-reader ones. Still, I’d love to get my hands on a paperwhite one. Hmm… if only I knew someone at Amazon….

Anyway, kudos to Amazon for what looks like a great release, as Gruber notes having actual product, prices, and availability dates is key.