[reedlaw]

$80 more for the higher-DPI Kindle Voyage seems a bit steep. Usually each generation of e-Ink Kindles were roughly the same price but with incremental improvements. I don't see much improvement in the Voyage to justify a big price increase. Plus I wish they'd bring back the physical page-turn buttons. Touch screens and "haptic" responses can't beat old-fashioned buttons.

[Turing_Machine]

Although you don't get the high res screen, there are incremental improvements in the base $79 model. More storage, faster processor, touch screen...

If I were betting, I'd bet that the high res screen component isn't yet available in large enough quantities and/or cheaply enough to make it feasible to use in the low-end model. That will no doubt change.

[ode]

I think what the OP is referring to is that the Voyage is really just the Paperwhite v3.

The just called it something else and raised the price excessively.

[mrtimo]

totally agree. maybe amazon is actually trying to make a profit?