{"id":3056,"date":"2009-09-05T07:26:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T12:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2009-09-05T07:26:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T12:26:17","slug":"amazon-offers-3000-gift-card-as-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3056","title":{"rendered":"Amazon offers $30.00 gift card as apology."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about it before <a title=\"The Dictator in the Machine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2609\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, and now <strong>PCWorld<\/strong> is updating the <a title=\"PCWORLD talks Trash on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2352503,00.asp\" target=\"_self\"><strong>story<\/strong><\/a>. Back in July, <strong>Amazon<\/strong> brazenly entered Kindle owners&#8217; collections and summarily deleted titles by George Orwell that they had mistakenly sold them&#8230;this without asking permission or offering explanation. Read some of the fallout <a title=\"Amazon Ate My Homework!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2742\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos<\/strong> ended up dishing out a sincere <a title=\"We're so sorry...\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2775\" target=\"_self\"><strong>apology<\/strong><\/a> in an attempt at damage control.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On Friday\u00c2\u00a0Amazon<\/em><\/strong> announced it was offering a <strong>$30 Gift Card<\/strong> to\u00c2\u00a0 the offended Kindle owners who lost copies of\u00c2\u00a0 <em><strong><a title=\"The deleted my 1984!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2609\" target=\"_self\">1984<\/a><\/strong><\/em> from their Kindles but are uninterested in a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>You can tell the competition is heating up in the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>. After all, if Amazon wanted to <em>play nice <\/em>they wouldn`t have broken into the Kindles in the first place, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about it before here, and now PCWorld is updating the story. Back in July, Amazon brazenly entered Kindle owners&#8217; collections and summarily deleted titles by George Orwell that they had mistakenly sold them&#8230;this without asking permission or offering explanation. Read some of the fallout here. Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos ended up dishing out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3056\">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":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056"}],"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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}