Thread: Are you going to buy the now $79 kindle?
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Old 10-04-2011, 09:29 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors View Post
No. To be honest, they could price it at $10 and I still wouldn't buy it. I don't like proprietary formats limiting my enjoyment of media and Amazon's behavior as a company is pretty jaw-dropping.

Apart from that, this price is brought to you by advertisements. On your books.

I don't care if it's only at certain times or certain products or magic elves intuit when a plot twist is coming and make sure to wait to launch an ad until the next page. There is something pure and unfettered about books. They're so self-contained and so much easier to fully escape into.

I can think of nothing I would want less than to have ads brought into that equation. Ugh. As if we aren't getting hounded by advertisers constantly all the time as it is.

I just want one place in my life where I can go and be free from marketers trying to manipulate me like Pavlov's dog. Just leave me alone in this one place, when I'm reading, and I won't go postal.
You are incorrect. The advertisements are not in the books. They are in the screensavers and at the bottom of the menu page.
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