Amazon to allow users to pay $30 to remove ads on new Kindles

by Andrew Moran (Guest Contributor/Digital Journalist)

Sick and tired of advertisements? Amazon is allowing its customers to pay $30 to remove advertisements from the latest ad-supported Kindles. The $30 is the difference in price between a non-ad Kindle and a Kindle with ads.

There is now reprieve for Kindle customers who purchased the latest subsidized Kindles that contain Special Officers and advertisements.

For $30, you can upgrade to an ad-free Kindle and remove ads that you find annoying, according to a report from theDigital Reader.  Also this news was discovered by a MobileRead forum user.

The steps to rid yourself of ads are to go to the Manage Your Devices page, choose the Kindle that is subscribed to Special Offers and then unsubscribe. The original tipster informed Digital Reader that Amazon would not allow its consumers to go back to an ad-subsidized version.The unsubscribe feature isn’t available for Kindle 3 (Kindle Keyboard) users.

For those interested in purchasing a Kindle, the least expensive e-reader without special offers is $109, the Kindle Touch is $139 without ads and the Kindle 3G is $149 with ads and $189 without the ads.

“It looks like Amazon noticed that a lot of people bought a K3 SO and hated the ads, and that is probably why they added a solution to the K4 before it launched,” wrote Nate Hoffelder ofDigital Reader.Amazon has not made any official announcement regarding the option.

This article originally appeared on Digital Journal [Link]