Introducing the All-New Fire HD 8 Reader s Edition: the Best Tablet for Reading

Introducing the All-New Fire HD 8 Reader's Edition: the Best Tablet for Reading

New Reader's Edition comes with the all-new Fire HD 8, a year of Kindle Unlimited, and a limited edition leather cover-all for only $249.99

With Blue Shade, an exclusive Fire OS Bellini feature that limits sleep-suppressing blue wavelength light to provide comfortable nighttime reading on a tablet before bed

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2015-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)-Amazon today introduced the Fire HD 8 Reader's Edition, which combines the all-new Fire HD 8, a year of Kindle Unlimited with access to over 1 million books, and a limited edition leather cover for only $249.99. Reader's Edition also includes Blue Shade, an innovative new feature that adjusts and optimizes the display on your Fire HD 8 tablet to reduce blue light exposure before bedtime. Fire HD 8 Reader's Edition is available for pre-order starting today at: www.amazon.com/FireHD8ReadersEdition.

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Fire HD 8 Reader's Edition simply delivers the best reading experience on any tablet, said Charlie Tritschler, Vice President, Amazon Devices. With an incredibly thin and light design and 8 HD color display, this is the perfect tablet for reading-a year of Kindle Unlimited with access to over a million books, plus innovative new features like Blue Shade-now even more readers can curl up in bed with their favorite stories.

Read All You Want With Kindle Unlimited

Enjoy unlimited reading of over 1 million books and unlimited listening to thousands of audiobooks with Kindle Unlimited. Read freely from top books, including The Man in the High Castle, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the Wayward Pines trilogy, the entire Harry Potter series, and many more. The service regularly costs $9.99 per month but is included for one year with Reader's Edition (a $120 value).

Blue Shade - Read Comfortably at Night

Want to read that last chapter from the comfort of your bed? Simply turn on Blue Shade, an exclusive new Amazon feature that works behind the scenes to adjust and optimize the display on the Fire HD 8 for a more comfortable nighttime reading experience on a tablet. Studies have shown that evening exposure to blue light from tablets may suppress our bodies' production of melatonin, which can prolong the time it takes to fall asleep, delay REM sleep, and reduce the level of alertness the next morning. Blue Shade uses specialized filters to limit exposure to blue light. It also offers warm color filters and the ability to lower the display brightness to an ultra-low level for comfortable nighttime reading-even in a dark room. The feature can be easily turned on or off with a single tap on the Blue Shade quick setting. Customers can also fine-tune the color settings to their personal preference, with the device intelligently adjusting the color filtering so that at any color or brightness, the blue wavelength light is always sufficiently suppressed.

The Best Reading Features

Fire HD 8 Reader's Edition includes the features readers expect from Amazon, all designed to help readers enjoy their books even more, and get more out of their reading:

Bookerly Font-An exclusive font designed from the ground up for reading on digital screens. Warm and contemporary, Bookerly is inspired by the artistry of the best fonts in modern print books, but is hand-crafted for great readability at any size. It introduces a lighter, more graceful look and outperforms other digital reading fonts to help customers read faster with less eyestrain.

Adjustable fonts-Choose from eight text sizes to find the one that fits your level of comfort.

Multi-colored highlights-Simply tap a word and choose from pink, blue, orange and yellow to categorize your highlighted words and passages, which can also be shared across devices.

Word Runner-Read Faster, one word at a time, with Word Runner, a new speed reading feature that brings each word to the center of the screen to where your eyes are already focused. Word Runner has Dynamic Pacing so it gradually builds to your preferred reading speed and algorithmically and automatically slows down for difficult words, punctuation, and paragraph breaks.

Audible-Choose from more than 180,000 titles, including best sellers, romances, thrillers, and much more with Audible, an Amazon company-every book is read by a professional narrator. New members can enjoy a 30-day Audible free trial with Reader's Edition.

Whispersync for Voice-Whenever you see Kindle Unlimited with Narration, you can seamlessly switch back-and-forth between reading and listening without ever losing your place.

Immersion Reading-Fire tablets can synchronize Kindle text with companion Audible audiobooks so that you can read a Kindle eBook while at the same time, listening to its professionally narrated Audible companion Audiobook. With text-to-speech, Fire tablets can read English-language content to you when available from a publisher.

Kindle sharing with instant previews-Share quotes, highlights, and recommendations from your favorite Kindle books on Facebook or Twitter, or start a conversation with your friends on popular mobile messaging apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Friends who receive a share can click on the book or quote and instantly start reading a free preview right from their tablet, phone, or PC web browser-no need to sign up, sign in, or install an app.

Goodreads integration-Combines the world's largest e-reading community and the world's largest community of book lovers. Reader's Edition is integrated with the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, with over 40 million members, 1.1 billio

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