{"id":5965,"date":"2010-06-22T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2010-06-22T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T13:43:07","slug":"then-amazon-kindle-2-drops-in-price-to-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5965","title":{"rendered":"Then Amazon Kindle 2 Drops in Price to $189"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll say they thought of it first, but <strong>Amazon<\/strong> has now dropped the price of their <strong>Kindle 2<\/strong> eBook Reader with <strong>Whispernet 3G<\/strong> from <strong>$259<\/strong> to <strong>$189<\/strong> hot on the heels of <strong>Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s nook<\/strong> dropping in price to <strong>$149<\/strong> for its <strong>WiFi-<\/strong>only <strong>nook<\/strong> and <strong>$199<\/strong> for its <strong>3G WiFi nook<\/strong>. Read more on the story at <strong><a title=\"Amazon Kindle Price Drops\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1662394\/amazon-drops-kindle-price-to-189-to-compete-with-nook-and-ipad\" target=\"_self\">FastCompany<\/a><\/strong> (and just about everywhere else on the net).<\/p>\n<p>This is a shrewd move. Rather than fight it out with iPad for a <strong>multi-function market<\/strong>, fight for the <strong>E Ink market<\/strong> you already own, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll say they thought of it first, but Amazon has now dropped the price of their Kindle 2 eBook Reader with Whispernet 3G from $259 to $189 hot on the heels of Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s nook dropping in price to $149 for its WiFi-only nook and $199 for its 3G WiFi nook. Read &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5965\">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":[3,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965"}],"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=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}