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Kindle With Special Offers Debuts at $114

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So, today there is an advertising supported kindle that sells for $25 less than its cheapest cousin which is the kindle wifi. What will it look like? The screensavers are one place that ads will show…

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So, today there is an advertising supported kindle that sells for $25 less than its cheapest cousin which is the kindle wifi. What will it look like? The screensavers are one place that ads will show up. Also at the bottom of the home page. (It appears that you won't have ads in the middle of your book.) I'm wondering if a $25 discount is enough to encourage someone to go for this version over the wifi?

It's hard for me to say since I went ahead and sprung for the 3g version at $189. From their descriptions the advertising support seems relatively unobtrusive. (Much less so than google ads.... I could see them setting aside a part of EACH page of a text to put ads which would be annoying.)

So what do you think - will the $25 discount make for more sales?

Is any kind of advertising too much on this kind of device?

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