DougLance said:
Though, they did say that something new is coming for the holiday season.
mooshie78 said:
With the Amazon tablets coming out, . . . .
Just to be clear, Amazon has not made any definitive statement about their forthcoming product offerings. In fact, when specifically asked about Amazon branded tablet devices, Jeff Bezos said only "stay tuned".
There is
tons of speculation: that they are working on a tablet; that it will be available for the holiday shopping season and maybe even by the 'back to school' shopping season. Consensus seems to be that it will be a backlit screen vs reflective screen device, most likely Android based; it's extremely likely there will be a Kindle App for it. There have been articles indicating it will be a 7 inch screen; others that it will be a 9-10 inch screen. Even that there will be one of each.
Bezos has also said, even fairly recently, that he doesn't see the reflective color screens as yet ready for commercial use, though they're coming.
To answer the question posed by the OP: I think there will, eventually, because that seems to be the way of the world. I'm pretty certain that it won't happen, though, until they solve the 'smudge' problem. Presumably the infrared touch that the new Kobo and Nooks use, go a long way toward that. I won't be surprised if there are page turn buttons as well so people can use it as works best for them. They could even produce a new touch screen model but keep making the existing version too, but that would depend on satisfactory demand of both of two fairly different products.