{"id":3756,"date":"2009-11-13T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2009-11-13T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:45:54","slug":"amazon-releases-kindle-for-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3756","title":{"rendered":"Amazon releases Kindle for PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Don't get excited yet...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-28564-Raleigh-Gadgets-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Amazon-releases-free-Kindle-for-PC\" target=\"_self\">Here&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> a story at the <strong><em>Examiner.com<\/em><\/strong> about\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Amazon<\/strong> releasing a <strong>Kindle for PC<\/strong>. That is, a Kindle-app for you to run on your computer or laptop so that you can enjoy the Kindle eBook Reading experience&#8211;test it out. It&#8217;s an attempt to generate a groundswell of interest and tease us with a\u00c2\u00a0taste of Kindle (with free eBook downloads to boot) so that we&#8217;ll all run out and slap the <strong>$250<\/strong> down to buy an actual\u00c2\u00a0Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been interested in the Kindle&#8217;s look and read about its functionality. Of course, being based in Canada I wasn&#8217;t able to purchase one until a few weeks ago when the Global Kindle was launched, but by then I&#8217;d made other arrangements. Still, I&#8217;m in the business, so to be fair I decided to at least give this Kindle PC a test drive. I mean, the Kindle&#8217;s a popular device, maybe I should give it another chance, <em>yah?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So I popped over to the free Kindle for PC <strong><a title=\"Kindle for PC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html\/ref=ms_sbrspot_0?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000426311&amp;pf_rd_p=498990411&amp;pf_rd_s=center-22&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=B0015T963C&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=0647KHETFFZ2T7JX3GZB\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Enjoyed a moment of excitement and enthusiasm, and then clicked the download button. Imagine how I felt when I discovered that Kindle for PC is not available in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Well, do you know what they can do with their Kindle for PC? They can <strong>@!*^%\u00c2\u00a0!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a story at the Examiner.com about\u00c2\u00a0Amazon releasing a Kindle for PC. That is, a Kindle-app for you to run on your computer or laptop so that you can enjoy the Kindle eBook Reading experience&#8211;test it out. It&#8217;s an attempt to generate a groundswell of interest and tease us with a\u00c2\u00a0taste of Kindle (with free &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3756\">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":[3,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756"}],"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=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}