Amazon to release a colour touchscreen version of their E-Ink Kindle tablet after shipment details leaked to a Chinese economics news website.

According to DigiTimes, E-Ink manufacturer E-Ink Holdings claims to have received an order from Amazon for 6-inch colour eReader modules that are also touch enabled.

The website also claims that the shipments would begin in March and would reach 3 million units per month, figures that would most certainly put it in line as a replacement for the current Amazon Kindle.

Amazon already have a colour tablet in the form of the Kindle Fire, however with Colour E Ink technology the proposed eReader would be more an upgrade to the current Kindle rather than a competitor for the Kindle Fire.

Source: DigiTimes