Overview
- The front‑lit Kindle Scribe starts at $499.99 and the new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft starts at $629.99.
- Amazon will not take preorders, and customers can sign up for email alerts when sales open.
- The $429.99 Scribe without a front light is delayed to 2026, and Canada is not included in the first launch wave.
- Hardware updates include an 11‑inch glare‑free display at about 5.4mm thick and ~400g, texture‑molded glass for pen friction, a faster quad‑core chip with more memory, Oxide display tech, and stronger magnetic pen attachment.
- Colorsoft adds soft‑color display capabilities with 10 pen colors, five highlighter colors, and a shader tool, while new software brings note search with AI summaries plus reading aids like Story So Far and Ask This Book, with future Alexa+ tie‑ins planned.