{"id":1022,"date":"2009-02-21T00:20:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T05:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2009-02-21T00:20:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T05:20:53","slug":"kindle-2-versus-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Kindle 2 versus iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WOW! This is happening way faster than I imagined. All of it&#8230; Amazon&#8217;s already being challenged. I&#8217;d say &#8220;that will teach them&#8221; but it won&#8217;t. Even eBook prices are starting to drop!<\/p>\n<p>This is the most detailed <a title=\"Kindle 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Generation\/dp\/B00154JDAI\/ref=sr_tr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=electronics&amp;qid=1234208514&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle 2<\/a> review I&#8217;ve read so far. Read it <a title=\"Kindle 2 Reviewed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/blog\/main\/archives\/2009\/02\/a_david_vs_goli.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. For good measure, David Berlind of <a title=\"Kindle 2 versus iPod\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/blog\/main\/archives\/2009\/02\/a_david_vs_goli.html\" target=\"_blank\">Informationweek.com<\/a>, throws in a detailed comparison with the upstart eBook-reading\u00c2\u00a0 <a title=\"iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone<\/a> tricked out with <a title=\"Kicking Kindle!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lexcycle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quite an interesting point in this feature. If you break your $359 Kindle, Amazon will send you a new one for a mere $180. That&#8217;s an interesting price. It suggests that their markup on new Kindles is way, way higher than 100%.<\/p>\n<p>If they can &#8216;give&#8217; you a replacement for <strong>$180<\/strong>&#8211;and we know they&#8217;re still making money on that, then the\u00c2\u00a0<strong>$359<\/strong> they charge you for a brand new one is <strong>INFORMATION HIGHWAY ROBBERY<\/strong>!!<\/p>\n<p>And they don&#8217;t even keep them in stock&#8230; <em>Yah!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=eboorumo-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=26&#038;l=ur1&#038;category=kindle&#038;banner=1VW4WBP63FJN3CB2ETG2&#038;f=ifr\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOW! This is happening way faster than I imagined. All of it&#8230; Amazon&#8217;s already being challenged. I&#8217;d say &#8220;that will teach them&#8221; but it won&#8217;t. Even eBook prices are starting to drop! This is the most detailed Kindle 2 review I&#8217;ve read so far. Read it here. For good measure, David Berlind of Informationweek.com, throws &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1022\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}