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Amazon to Release Ad-Subsidized Kindle for $114 

marco:

Bizarre:

Ads will appear on the device’s screen saver and show up as a banner on the homepage, but will not appear inside books.

It’s only a $25 savings from the normally-$139 Kindle 3. I’m sure they can find buyers for it, but at what cost to Amazon’s (and the Kindle’s) image?

vai ser a oferta kindle da compra coletiva. O poupar pelo poupar.
Se é subsidiado devia ser de graça.

  1. keitaroh reblogged this from marco and added:
    I wouldn’t justify a $25 savings with having advertisements for the life of the device - if it was $50 less than the...
  2. multisonic reblogged this from marco
  3. peterwknox reblogged this from marco and added:
    This makes the $139 version the ad-free premium version. How many ads and ad supported websites do we already consume?...
  4. eagereyes reblogged this from marco and added:
    I don’t think this is about ads: it’s about lowering the initial cost and making people pay the balance later. If...
  5. charmian reblogged this from marco and added:
    Agreed. This is such a paltry discount. If it were like fifty dollars, now maybe it would be more exciting.
  6. michaelk42 reblogged this from huberthumphreydeathrally and added:
    Weirdly, ads in (paperback) books at least used to happen, so technically this isn’t that new an idea. That was the...
  7. zeb reblogged this from mikehudack
  8. picoworld reblogged this from marco and added:
    I can’t see why this will diminish the Kindle’s image. To be honest, I don’t know how many people would actually go for...
  9. lifeofachampion reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    I agree 100%. Just tonight I was chatting with my friend about how whole textbooks and class material will be on a...
  10. brunabenvegnu reblogged this from marco and added:
    vai ser a oferta kindle da compra coletiva. O poupar pelo poupar. Se é subsidiado devia ser de graça.
  11. jryu reblogged this from mikehudack
  12. mikehudack reblogged this from marco and added:
    This isn’t bizarre. And it won’t harm their image. This is the first step towards giving the device away for free. One...
  13. ckck said: A $25 saving in cold hard cash, but you end up paying far more in terms of ad exposure, not to mention it’ll have zero resale value.
  14. kevinmosley said: lame. major ew
  15. andrewnonumbers said: The idea of having banner ads on a device not usually connected to the internet is interesting to me.
  16. justinluey reblogged this from marco and added:
    This is an interesting move, but the pricing is ridiculous. Why isn’t it free? Will people really opt into ads to save...
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