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Kobo announces its first color e-readers

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can buy "discounted" Kindle e-readers with ads, or you can buy them without ads for full price.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's no discount there, you're just accepting their marketing bullshit. That sounds to me like the company is double-dipping by shoving ads in your face and making the product objectively worse, then charging even more for a "premium" model where the only difference is they haven't intentionally downgraded it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Hence the quotation marks.