{"id":17048,"date":"2016-04-14T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17048"},"modified":"2016-04-14T10:10:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:10:27","slug":"amazon-veers-away-from-democratized-ebook-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17048","title":{"rendered":"Amazon veers away from democratized eBook reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techspective.net\/2016\/04\/13\/kindle-oasis-dramatic-expensive-shift-kindle-siblings\/\">Techspective<\/a><\/strong> continues the discussion about the <strong>expensive<\/strong> new <strong>Kindle Oasis eReader<\/strong> as <strong>Amazon<\/strong>\u00a0increases the price of reading an eBook by adding bells and whistles few have asked for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Oasis<\/strong> is a good looking piece of hardware, but the online retail giant has forgotten it once championed the low cost, convenience and accessibility of eBooks. Forget &#8220;even playing field&#8221; and &#8220;democratizing&#8221; publishing. Who&#8217;s going to read a<strong> $16 eBook<\/strong> on a <strong>$379 (without ads) eReader?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ironically, <strong>Kindle2<\/strong> first hit the market priced at <strong>$379<\/strong> (<em>without ads<\/em>)\u00a0back in <strong>2010<\/strong>. So, has Amazon lost its way, or is it finally getting back to its original game plan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techspective continues the discussion about the expensive new Kindle Oasis eReader as Amazon\u00a0increases the price of reading an eBook by adding bells and whistles few have asked for. The Oasis is a good looking piece of hardware, but the online retail giant has forgotten it once championed the low cost, convenience and accessibility of eBooks. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17048\">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":[7,3,4,5,8,25,15,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048"}],"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=17048"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17058,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions\/17058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}