Amazon on Wednesday introduced a brand new Kindle e-reader, and for the primary time ever it has a colour show.

The retailing big launched the Kindle in 2007, and each system since then has had a black-and-white display screen. The brand new Kindle has a show that is designed to make sure colours do not seem washed out or pixelated, even when customers zoom in on pictures.

The $279 system, which Amazon is looking the Kindle Colorsoft, has “weeks of battery life,” the corporate mentioned. It may be preordered now and ships on Oct. 30.

Amazon additionally unveiled a refreshed $399 Kindle Scribe with new note-taking options, an up to date $159 Kindle Paperwhite and a twelfth technology Kindle, which prices $109. At a press occasion in New York on Tuesday, Amazon’s units chief, Panos Panay, known as the updates the “largest single refresh that the Kindle lineup has ever had.”

The Kindle Scribe, which Amazon introduced in 2022, comes with a pen that enables customers to take notes, make to-do lists and write immediately on the pages of the ebook they’re studying. With the brand new note-taking function, known as Energetic Canvas, customers can take notes immediately on an e-book’s pages and the textual content will mechanically shift to circulation round it. They’re going to additionally be capable of take notes within the margins of the ebook and conceal them for later.

The Kindle Scribe contains one other new function that makes use of generative synthetic intelligence to summarize pages of notes right into a concise listing. Amazon mentioned the function makes use of Bedrock, a software program instrument that lets customers entry massive language fashions from Amazon and different firms like Anthropic and Stability AI. The system is accessible for preorder now and ships Dec. 4.

The brand new Kindle Paperwhite is quicker than earlier fashions, and in addition includes a bigger, 7-inch show, up from 6.8 inches on the prior model. Amazon says the twelfth technology Kindle is its most “compact” e-reader ever, with a brighter show. Each units can be found beginning Wednesday.