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Ad supported kindle released
- egb 15y agoOnly $25 cheaper than a regular kindle? Doesn't seem like much of a discount. Ad supported usually equals free these days.
- maushu 15y agoI agree, it would make more sense to also have discounts on the books.
- riffraff 15y agoit seems it does have something like that, at least from what I can understand from techcrunch > Amazon says it will be pushing “special offers directly on your Kindle”, including things like $10 for a $20 Amazon gift card, and $6 for 6 Audible books. http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/11/amazon-announces-ad-supported-kindle-for-114-thats-25-off/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/11/amazon-announces-ad-support... EDIT: ah, it was at the end of the amazon page actually :)
- gojomo 15y agoGive them time to line-up sponsors and continue refining the business model and per-unit costs: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/02/free_kindle_thi.php http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/02/free_kindle_t...
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- maguro 15y agoWhat the hell is this crap doing on Hacker News?!?!?!
- pppp 15y agoHow long before we see a completely free Kindle?
- diegob 15y agoit would have to display a lot more ads ... like as you're reading ... maybe video ads w/sound ... and flashing lights while we're at it.
- wcgortel 15y agoThe natural subsidy model for Kindles (to me) has always been subscribe (to publication x) for a period certain, get a reduced-price device. My suspicion is that this is an incremental development which will serve as a transition to a new pricing structure. As hardware costs decline, one of the largest variables in the pricing structure for these devices will come to be estimations of customers' future spends in the store. Any model that guarantees a spend is likely to find traction, and I expect to see multiple subsidy models emerging.