{"id":1714,"date":"2009-04-23T09:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2009-04-23T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:19:16","slug":"ebook-rumors-scoops-pcworld-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"eBook Rumors scoops PCWorld again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t have all\u00c2\u00a0the facts back <a title=\"Rumor is TRUE!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1022\" target=\"_self\">then<\/a>, but we reasoned this bit of mathematics out after discovering\u00c2\u00a0in February that Amazon will replace a broken Kindle for $180. So, that pretty much exposed their bottom line. When you look at the <strong>$359<\/strong> purchase price, well you figure out the grotesque profit from there.<\/p>\n<p>Read the proof at PCworld <a title=\"Kindle Overpriced\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/163609\/amazons_359_kindle_2_costs_18549_to_build.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a problem with a company making a fair\u00c2\u00a0profit, but that kind of gouging undermines the Kindle&#8217;s adoption while slowing the eBook Revolution, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t have all\u00c2\u00a0the facts back then, but we reasoned this bit of mathematics out after discovering\u00c2\u00a0in February that Amazon will replace a broken Kindle for $180. So, that pretty much exposed their bottom line. When you look at the $359 purchase price, well you figure out the grotesque profit from there. Read the proof &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1714\">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":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714"}],"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=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}