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Amazon's Kindle Touch has gone on sale a week ahead of schedule, with the second of the company's latest-gen Kindles now available from select retailers.

Of course, Amazon.co.uk fronts the Kindle Touch sales, where customers can pick up a Wi-Fi only version for £109 or a 3G model for £60 more.

Other outlets include John Lewis, Currys, PC World, Argos and Tesco.

Amazon Kindle Touch

While both Kindle Touches were penned for release on 27 April, the company said it knew UK customers were "eager to get their hands on them" and was "delighted" to ship earlier than planned.

With the Touch release out the way, maybe Amazon will finally turn its full attention towards bringing the Kindle Fire over the Pond. We twiddle our thumbs patiently. ®

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Touch easier?

Agree with all of that, but actually I spent 95% of the time on my Kindle reading books (who'd have guessed it?) and much prefer the handily placed buttons for page advance than moving a finger over the screen and back every page. Each to their own, but retaining the page advance buttons on the touch versions would have seemed to have kept the best of both worlds.

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Re: Amazon Kindle Touch touches down 2 years late

Amazon are selling more kindle books than paperbacks and are hitting an 11 digit quarterly sales figure. Does economics work differently in your universe because I'm not sure which part of this warrants a 'fail' icon.

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Re: Amazon Kindle Touch touches down 2 years late

I suspect Amazon knew exactly what they were doing with their product release schedule. It's not like they were struggling to sell their previous models. And by now some people may be looking for an upgrade to their previous generation of kindle.

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