{"id":6045,"date":"2010-07-03T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6045"},"modified":"2010-07-03T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T14:45:59","slug":"kindle-dx-drops-to-379","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6045","title":{"rendered":"Kindle DX Drops to $379!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that <b>$379 <\/b>is still a big bite for a lot of us, but seeing <b>Amazon <\/b>drop the price of its larger format <b>Kindle DX<\/b> from <b>$489<\/b> to <b>$379 <\/b>is an encouraging note following some dramatic price wrangling between the leading eBook Readers: Kobo eReader, nook and Kindle 2&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This story at <a title=\"Kindle DX is not an iPad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetechherald.com\/article.php\/201026\/5821\/Amazon-distances-new-Kindle-DX-from-Apple-s-iPad\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.thetechherald.com\/article.php\/201026\/5821\/Amazon-distances-new-Kindle-DX-from-Apple-s-iPad\" target=\"_self\"><i><b>The Tech Herald<\/b><\/i><\/a> goes on to say that the price drop comes with some upgrades to the machine with the 9.7-inch E Ink display. While I think the price could drop a lot more, the move at least shows that Amazon is stepping away from any contest with <b>Apple&#8217;s iPad<\/b>. iPad is a tablet computer that reads books and the Kindle DX (and siblings) is an eBook Reader.<\/p>\n<p>Do what you do best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that $379 is still a big bite for a lot of us, but seeing Amazon drop the price of its larger format Kindle DX from $489 to $379 is an encouraging note following some dramatic price wrangling between the leading eBook Readers: Kobo eReader, nook and Kindle 2&#8230; This story at The Tech &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6045\">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\/6045"}],"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=6045"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6053,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}