Amazon to sell ad-subsidized $114 Kindle reader

lame. Sell it for half price, or give it away free. But $25 off and have to see ads?

Screw you Amazon.

25 bucks? Why bother.

really, you retards are complaining about $25 off of a 140 device?? Stop living off daddys money and understand the real world and ull see this is a great thing from amazon

er....... make it 70$ and it will actually sale to more of the mouth breathers who are clueless about such devices.....

er....... make it 70$ and it will actually sale to more of the mouth breathers who are clueless about such devices.....

From what I read it is only going to display ads on the screensaver and the home page. I only see the screensaver when I am turning it on and only go to the home page when I want to change the book that I am reading so that does not sound very obtrusive. I think they should have went to $99 though for an ad supported version if not less.

I ran the Opera browser for a while in ad supported mode back before it was free and they only displayed a small ad, less than what you see on many web sites.

I just wonder how they are going to get the ads on your Kindle? I leave my wireless turned off unless I am buying a book to increase the battery life, so unless they do it during that brief time, it would be hard to push down new ads. I already have a Kindle so it really doesn't matter to me, but I like that they offer the option of getting a cheaper version if you are willing to put up with some ads. If you don't, then pay the $25 more to avoid them.