Kindle Fire Tablet Release: $30 Fee Required to Remove Ads

By Elton Jones, Christian Post Reporter Saturday, October 08, 2011

For those users who wish to do away with the pop-up advertisements on the latest "Kindle" tablet, a $30 fee must be paid in full.

"Special Offer" ads appear on the "Kindle's" lock screen and the bottom of the home screen.

The cheaper and more subsidized edition of Amazon's "Kindle Fire" comes with the advertisement feature, unlike the ad-free version. Those ads will pop up on the screen from time to time while other applications are running. Users may grow tired of them, so Amazon has reportedly given those people the option to do away with them altogether.

The process behind this deal is not complex. Users will have to go to their Amazon account page, navigate to the "Manage Your Kindle" option, click "Manage Your Devices" and then select the option to unsubscribe from "Special Offers." From there, they will be charged $30 to fully remove all of the tablet's advertisements.

This brand new feature will only be available on the keyboard-less Kindles and on the upcoming "Kindle Fire" model. Previous generation "Special Offer Kindles", such as the "Kindle 3", will still feature pop-up ads.

Users can easily shut off the ads by simply paying the fee, which equates to the difference between what a "Kindle Special Offers" tablet costs and what an ad-free version costs.

The currently available non-touch "Kindle 2011", which goes for $79 for the "Special Offers" version, will be the tablet that charges users $30 for the ad removal.

According to The Digital Blog writer Nate Hoffelder, "You can go into the Manage Your Kindle page and unsubscribe from the adverts. This only works on the K4 (and probably the kTouch when it is released)."

Amazon's latest move will surely please customers who have already purchased the subsidized edition of the tablet, seeing as how they now have the option to do away with the obtrusive ads.

The latest "Kindle" model removes the keyboard of previous models and instead goes with a directional pad for navigation. They officially launched last week for $79 with ads (subsidized version). The $109 version is currently Amazon's ad-free tablet.