Ad-Supported Kindle: Why Stop There?

World Health Organization does Amazon think IT's fooling with a meager $25 discount connected an ad-supported Kindle? Ad-supported e-books are where it's really at.

The $114 Kindle with Special Offers ships May 3, and limits ads to the device's screensaver and main menu. Amazon has no plans to stuff ads inside e-books, says Amazon V.P. of Enkindle self-complacent Russ Grandinetti. Grandinetti told Business Insider that the company is "pretty skeptical" that ad-supported e-books are something people would want.

Am I the only combined who thinks this is as well bad? If e-books could be had for trashy–or steady free–in interchange for the episodic ad, I'd download them by the dozen.

In theory, the nice thing about e-books is that you can build a huge program library in a portable computer software. Only if each e-book costs about the same as its dead-tree twin, then you're really just paying an extra $114+ for the convenience. Information technology's no more tributary to building up a library in damage of cost, just space.

Ad-dependent e-books could shift all of this.

Publishers could work with advertisers to set a reasonable Price along eyeballs, and then enjoyment the Kindle's WWW connectivity to adjust ads in serious time. Ad support could also be added to the Kindle program on phones and tablets. And instead of starting from scratch with a peculiar "ad-supported Kindle," advertizing-supported e-books would be fit to trespass of the already-constituted Kindle marketplace.

Ad-underhung e-books would too keep users in control. Grandinetti told Business Insider that the Conflagrate strives to "disappear" while you're reading, and that ads in e-books would make up a jarring experience. But I imagine users can decide whether that's an beta factor while reading. Sure, I may not want to see an ad for a fishing expedition in the midst of Moby Dick, merely I've got none problem learning about an upcoming Harry Potter movie spell reading J.K. Rowling's latest book. The Kindle with Special Offers forces you to look at an advertising every clock you grab the device. Unless you want to look like a cheapskate, giving this e-reader as a gift is out of the question.

People who want nothing to do with ads, of run over, would still Be able to purchase ad-fewer books for the same dead-tree book Price they're purchasing them for now.

So I hope Amazon River will reconsider its involuntariness to set ads in e-books. The Fire with Limited Offers is a cagy maneuver that gives Virago one more advantage over the challenger, but it doesn't go far enough.

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