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What do you think about Amazon's new cheaper Kindle with ads?

The price isn't that much different--a reduction of $25-- if you're happy to have ads display on it. Would that tempt you? I think I'd rather just wait until I can afford an ad-free one. Now if they had dropped it under $100, I may have been tempted.

Amazon.com Inc. is dropping the price on its Kindle e-reader, but the change comes with a trade-off: On-screen ads.
The online retailer was set to announce Tuesday that the new Kindle with Special Offers will cost $114 - $25 less than the currently lowest-priced Kindle - and include advertisements on the bottom of the device's home page and on its screen savers. Seattle-based Amazon will start shipping the newest Kindle on May 3, and it will also be sold in Target and Best Buy stores on that date.

Amazon has consistently lowered the price of the Kindle since it released the first version of the device at $399 in 2007, though this is the first time it is doing so while including ads on the e-reader.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/04/11/2240169/amazon-to-sell-...

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Permalink Reply by Aries on April 24, 2011 at 6:28pm

Buy it, jailbreak it, mod it to remove the ads, snap a picture along with a rude gesture saying to Amazon "Here's what I think of your ads."

Now, if it's ads for books I might like, I might be a bit more civil on that and just make a gesture that's only rude in Taiwan.

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Permalink Reply by scribbler on April 30, 2011 at 4:10am

I don't see why you'd do that. You get it cheaper because of ads. When you jailbreak something you invalidate the warranty. If you dislike the ads so much, buy the version that doesn't have it! LOL. You made your life very complicated there.