Kindle Black Friday 2026: Dates, Prices, What to Wait For

The dates

When Kindle Black Friday 2026 starts

If you are holding off on a Kindle until Black Friday, the dates are now fixed. Amazon’s 9 November announcement runs Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday from 12:01 a.m. Pacific on 19 November through 30 November. On Black Friday and again on Cyber Monday, deals drop twice: at midnight and at 8 a.m. Pacific.

The same announcement names exactly one e-reader. In Amazon’s first look at its Black Friday deals, the Kindle Colorsoft (2024) sits in a group described as up to 45% off, beside two Ember TVs. No price is given, and the “up to” covers the whole group, so the Colorsoft’s own cut could be smaller. At the full 45% it would land near $160, about where it sold at Prime Day in June.

Nothing in either page mentions the 2026 Kindle, Paperwhite or Colorsoft, which Amazon announced on 1 October. This is their first Kindle Black Friday. None of them appears in The eBook Reader’s list from the October Prime event, which cut only previous-generation Kindles, and all three sit at full price today.

The lineup

What every reading Kindle costs today

These are Amazon’s own listing prices on 14 November 2026, read off each product page. Two of the 2026 listings are the versions without lockscreen ads, at $169.99 for the Kindle and $219.99 for the Paperwhite; Amazon’s October announcement gives $149.99 and $199.99 as their starting prices. Check for the word “ads” in a listing title before you compare deals, because the same reader is sold both ways.

The odd part of that list is the 2024 models. Since the new line arrived in October they carry the same prices as their replacements: the 2024 Colorsoft is $289.99, exactly what the 2026 Colorsoft costs, and the 2024 Paperwhite is $199.99. The Kids editions moved the same way, with the Paperwhite Kids at $229.99 and the Colorsoft Kids at $299.99.

Last year

What Black Friday 2025 and this year’s sales cut

Amazon does not publish its past sale prices, so the record here is The eBook Reader, which lists every discounted Kindle model by model at each event. Its Black Friday 2025 list had the Kindle at $79.99, the Paperwhite at $124.99, the Paperwhite Signature Edition at $149.99 and the 16 GB Colorsoft at $169.99, with the Colorsoft Signature Edition at $229.99. The kids’ bundles ran $94.99 for the Kindle, $134.99 for the Paperwhite and $189.99 for the Colorsoft.

This year’s two Prime events show how the same 2024 models are priced now. At Prime Day in June, before the new line, the Colorsoft hit $159.99, lower than last Black Friday, and the Paperwhite matched its $124.99. At the October event, after the new models launched and the old ones were repriced, the sale prices were higher: $189.99 for the Colorsoft, $149.99 for the Paperwhite, $103.99 for the Kindle.

And last year Cyber Monday added nothing. The eBook Reader’s Cyber Monday post said the deals were exactly the same as Amazon’s Black Friday sales, so there was no reason to hold out for the Monday.

The call

Which Kindle to wait for on Black Friday

Put the three price columns side by side and the order of value is not the order of the list prices.

For colour, the 2024 Colorsoft is the one to watch. It is the only e-reader Amazon has named, it sold for $159.99 in June, and its list price now matches the newer model’s. Anything near $160 is the year’s low; anything above $189.99 is worse than October.

For a plain reader, the 2024 Paperwhite has been $124.99 at the last two big sales, Black Friday 2025 and Prime Day. That is the Kindle Paperwhite Black Friday number to wait for. The cheapest Kindle of all went for $79.99 last November and $84.99 in June; if price is the whole question, our cheap e-reader guide covers the readers under $150 from other makers too.

The 2026 models are the open question. Amazon has not named them, and they have never been on sale, so nobody outside Amazon knows what their first cut will be. If you want the newest hardware, a first discount on the 2026 Paperwhite or Colorsoft is worth taking. If you want a good reader for less, the 2024 models at last year’s prices cost less for a reader one generation older. Our best Kindle 2026 guide lays out what changed between the generations, and if the Kindle you want is one you write on, the Scribe has its own Kindle Scribe Black Friday page.

The prep

How to be ready when the Kindle deals open

Three checks keep a Kindle Black Friday deal from being a worse buy than it looks.

• Read the model year in the title. Amazon lists the older readers as “(2024 model)” and the new ones as “(newest model)”, and today both sit at the same list price, so a percentage off tells you less than the year does.
• Check for ads. The 2026 Kindle and Paperwhite listings without lockscreen ads are $20 above the starting prices Amazon announced. Compare a deal against the same version.
• Look at the trade-in on the day. Last Black Friday The eBook Reader noted an extra 20% off sale prices when trading in an old Kindle, even a broken one. At Prime Day in June it found the trade-in option disappeared on deal prices. Check it before you count on it.

If you are choosing between brands rather than between Kindles, our best e-reader 2026 picks put the Paperwhite and Colorsoft beside Kobo and Boox, and the reMarkable Black Friday page covers the paper-tablet side of the sale.

Kobo runs its own sale on its own dates; our Kobo Black Friday page covers the Clara and Libra Colour for the same week.

We will rebuild this page on 19 November when Amazon’s Kindle deals go live, with every price re-read off its own listing. If you buy a Kindle during the event at a price that is not here, tell us in the comments or on our Kindle hub; a real receipt beats any roundup, and it goes into the next version of this page.

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