REVIEW Amazon's stalwart ebook reader has undergone a major overhaul, but it's hard to get past the lightweight Kindle's hefty price tag. The new Kindle Oasis brings plenty of improvements to the table, but before we dive into them you need to come to terms with the whopping AU$449 price tag. That makes it Amazon's most expensive Australian Kindle ever – by now you'd think the online retail giant would almost be giving away budget Kindles as a loss leader to make money from selling ebooks, but instead it's pushing prices up to turn the top-shelf 8th-generation Kindle into a luxury status symbol. In Amazon's defence perhaps it's smart enough not to get in a race to the bottom and turn its...
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