When I heard that the Amazon Kindle Fire HD was going to have ads, I was a bit worried. After I bought mine, it didn't turn out to be all that bad.

When you first turn it on, there's an ad displayed. And there are two "pull it" bars. One gets you to the regular bookshelf (or into the book you were reading last). The other gets you into an extended ad.

If you go to the bookshelf, you never see advertising again, which was what I was mainly worried about. It isn't obnoxious. The ads have been a mixed lot; some for cars, some for computer games that run on the Fire HD, various other things. But for the last month, it's been the same one: for Amazon itself.

It looks like a place holder. I wonder if they aren't having much luck selling the advertising slot?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 06:20 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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