Amazon is selling the WiFi Kindle for $114. Why so cheap? Instead of the normal screensavers, some of them are ads.
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$114 Kindle
- Thread starter sparkchaser
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You should have an accident with it.
You know, if I could regularly get the MP3 album for $1 deal, I would buy an extra Kindle just for that. The thing would pay for itself after 12 albums.
pontalba
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Remember the old days, when there were no commercials on cable television?
I'd had cable tv back in the 80's and as far as I can remember there were no commercials. That was the point of buying cable tv, so one wouldn't have to put up with interminable and inane commercials interrupting a story. Fast forward to present, and on many of the channels, there is a string of commercials every 12-15 minutes.
My point, and I do have one,
is that commercial screen savers are only the first step for these ereaders. Next thing they'll be flashing a page every 20 or 25 pages to buy the latest "whatever" right now! And for 25 USD cheaper we should put up with constant interruptions to our reading?
They should not be encouraged.
I'd had cable tv back in the 80's and as far as I can remember there were no commercials. That was the point of buying cable tv, so one wouldn't have to put up with interminable and inane commercials interrupting a story. Fast forward to present, and on many of the channels, there is a string of commercials every 12-15 minutes.
My point, and I do have one,
is that commercial screen savers are only the first step for these ereaders. Next thing they'll be flashing a page every 20 or 25 pages to buy the latest "whatever" right now! And for 25 USD cheaper we should put up with constant interruptions to our reading?They should not be encouraged.
Don't a few traditional publishers have advertisements in the middle and either ends of their dead tree books?
This is really nothing new.
This is really nothing new.
pontalba
Well-Known Member
In my experience, only at the very end of certain publishers editions. Usually mass market paperbacks. And then, only at the end of the book, usually skipping a page, totally non-invasive of the story itself.
Unless I'm mistaken, the adverts on the $114. Kindle would be screen savers, totally unavoidable and certainly invasive of the reading experience.
How is a screen saver "invasive of the reading experience"? It's no more invasive of the reading experience than having to look at the cover of a book before continuing reading. If you don't touch any buttons on your Kindle for a few minutes (10?), it "turns off" and goes to a screen saver which is normally a portrait of some long dead classics author. Speaking from experience there are a few of those portraits that I would gladly trade for an ad.
That's a steal. Anyone contemplating an eReader should jump on that. Now.
Does it apply to website sales too?
Edit: In store only it appears.
pontalba
Well-Known Member
Well then, I suppose it is all in a readers perspective, like most things in life.
beer good
Well-Known Member
That's the reaction I got the first time someone told me Americans had to put up with commercials in the middle of TV programmes. Aaah, capitalism.
Isabell
Active Member
Target's ad for the Kindle at $114 is the one with Ads. I just bought one last night for Andrew. Out the door= $96
He loves it!!
It is? Oh well, good deal regardless. Especially at $96.
Isabell
Active Member
Honestly, if Amazon put the ads there and didn't mention it, I would have never noticed.
NotTheDoctor
Member
I think it's longer than 10 minutes. But regardless, you only see the screensaver when the Kindle is turned off, so it's kind of like seeing the cover of a book before you open it: unavoidable but hardly invasive.
BeerWench13
Active Member
There will be a way to circumvent these ads just as you can fast forward through commercials now with a DVR. I'm sure if they'd have had the $114 version out when hubby got mine that he'd have bought it and I'd still have been ecstatic with it. It is the only thing that I got for Christmas other than my vacuum/steamer and that I use on a daily basis.
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coupon, it works on what appears to be all Apple Macbook Pro and Air laptops.
The Special Offers link at:
http://www.amazon.com/s/?emi=ATVPDKIKX0DER&node=565108
only displays a few Macbook laptops. However, I tried applying the coupon on
a handful of of the "newest" Air and Pro laptops and the coupon worked.
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Claim your coupon by Monday, August 8, 2011.
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