Send to KindleA recent AdAge article states that Amazon is currently in the process of selling ad space for future ad-supported versions of the Kindle Fire.
The ads would be on the welcome screen, according to “an executive at an agency that Amazon has pitched.” The ad packages reportedly start at a not paltry $600,000.
The AdAge article suggests that ads might be added on to existing customers’ Kindle Fires, but I highly doubt that. I’m guessing Amazon would offer a separate ad-supported Kindle Fire.
Currently Amazon sells ad-supported Kindles and Kindle Touches. The advertisements appear as screensavers and also as a horizontal banner at the bottom of the home page. I used to have an ad-supported Kindle Touch and found the ads much less annoying than I thought they’d be. I think an add-supported Fire would be great because it would lower the already low price of a great product.
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