{"id":3506,"date":"2009-10-20T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2009-10-20T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:23:51","slug":"global-kindle-finally-out-of-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"Global Kindle Finally Out of the Gates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is\u00c2\u00a0shaking off those <em>dreams<\/em> of market monopoly,\u00c2\u00a0smelling the coffee and realizing there are some <em>real<\/em> world-class competitors coming into the game with the same grand\u00c2\u00a0ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Amazon started shipping a souped-up Kindle for U.S. and International adopters. Read <strong><a title=\"Global Kindle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/retail\/220700113;jsessionid=JNNMOIJASKV2ZQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong> at <strong>Channel Web<\/strong> for a story\u00c2\u00a0about the <em>global <\/em>Kindle&#8217;s migration to one hundred countries with AT&amp;T&#8217;s wireless network attached. With a new price of <strong>$279<\/strong>, the device promises to deliver an eBook to you wirelessly in 60 seconds in\u00c2\u00a0any one of\u00c2\u00a0those hundred countries.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad they&#8217;re doing it. (Even if Canada is not yet one of the hundred countries being served&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>But ubiquity doesn&#8217;t just depend on access&#8230; the price has to be right, and in a market with <strong>$199<\/strong> eBook Readers, the Kindle&#8217;s<strong> $279<\/strong> price tag still makes it an expensive adoption,\u00c2\u00a0<em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is\u00c2\u00a0shaking off those dreams of market monopoly,\u00c2\u00a0smelling the coffee and realizing there are some real world-class competitors coming into the game with the same grand\u00c2\u00a0ambitions. Yesterday Amazon started shipping a souped-up Kindle for U.S. and International adopters. Read here at Channel Web for a story\u00c2\u00a0about the global Kindle&#8217;s migration to one hundred countries with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3506\">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":[3,5,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506"}],"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=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}