{"id":12386,"date":"2009-07-09T10:31:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12386"},"modified":"2009-07-09T10:59:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T15:59:54","slug":"amazon-drops-kindle-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12386","title":{"rendered":"Amazon drops Kindle price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t push my links on you folks very often, but Amazon just made it worth my (and your) while. I don&#8217;t know how many books ya&#8217;all read, but I read a ton a year. It was a main point of contention with my wife because I can&#8217;t seem to throw any away.\u00a0 I looked at Kindle 1 last year and thought it was a great idea &#8211; no more arguments over our shrinking home and all the books I can read delivered in seconds. But it was too expensive, so I figured I&#8217;d wait.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nA year later, they brought out Kindle 2 and I figured they&#8217;d never drop the price so I bought it the first day it was available. It&#8217;s been the most useful thing I ever bought &#8211; books and newpapers delivered at the moment I get the urge &#8211; and no cluttered bookshelves. I&#8217;ve read more in the last few months than I ever read in my life. Waiting at the doctors&#8217; office doesn&#8217;t bother me anymore since I always have a book to read because it&#8217;s so convenient to take everywhere.  <\/p>\n<p>Amazon has over 300,000 book titles available for Kindles (I&#8217;ve never not found a book I was looking for) in addition to some newspapers and blogs. The newspapers are waiting for me in the Kindle when I get up in the morning &#8211; and there&#8217;s no little Chinese guy trying to throw the newspaper through my plate glass window every morning. <\/p>\n<p>The Kindle reads to you (with a choice of male or female voice), it has an MP3 player and limited websurfing on the free 3G network.  <\/p>\n<p>Last night Amazon emailed me that they dropped the price $50, so it&#8217;s about $300 now. The first price drop in the history of the thing. Plus they bumped up what I&#8217;ll earn on it if you buy it from the link in my sidebar. If you&#8217;ve been thinking about buying one &#8211; now&#8217;s the time. And TAH is the place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Added:<\/strong> By the way, there have been some questions about the links, so I figured I take some time to explain them. On the Google links, I get paid when you click them. Period. You don&#8217;t have to buy anything.<\/p>\n<p>On the Amazon banners, even if you don&#8217;t buy the stuff advertised on the banner, as long as you click over to Amazon from TAH and buy something, I get a piece of it. Actually, all I get is credit on my Amazon bill at the end of the month &#8211; so you&#8217;re just paying my Amazon bill, which, as you can imagine, is pretty substantial every month since I buy all of my media from them because I hate leaving my easy chair.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t push my links on you folks very often, but Amazon just made it worth &hellip; <a title=\"Amazon drops Kindle price\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12386\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon drops Kindle price<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}