{"id":6239,"date":"2010-07-29T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T18:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2010-07-29T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T18:55:06","slug":"amazon-sells-out-of-kindles-after-price-drop-well-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6239","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Sells out of Kindles after Price Drop. WELL, DUH!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if we&#8217;re supposed to be surprised by this, but <strong><a title=\"Kindle Sells Out\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/gaming.gadgets\/07\/28\/kindle.amazon.cnet\/index.html?iref=NS1\" target=\"_self\">CNN<\/a><\/strong> (and lots of others) says <strong>Amazon<\/strong> has sold all of its <strong>Kindles<\/strong>. This after the online book retailer dropped the Kindle price from <strong>$259<\/strong> to as low as <strong>$189<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, let me get this straight, Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle\u00c2\u00a0(Remember Kindle 2 first hit the market at <strong>$379<\/strong>) and as a result more people bought Kindles&#8230; Oh and there was a corresponding increase in eBook sales&#8230; <em><strong>And<\/strong><\/em> the high-price of new eBooks (while still too high) is no longer dominating the news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sounds logical. Also sounds like something a lot of us have been saying since the whole <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> started up. (Don&#8217;t you just hate when they try to cover an error by calling it a &#8220;change in strategy.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if we&#8217;re supposed to be surprised by this, but CNN (and lots of others) says Amazon has sold all of its Kindles. This after the online book retailer dropped the Kindle price from $259 to as low as $189. So, let me get this straight, Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle\u00c2\u00a0(Remember &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6239\">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":[8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239"}],"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=6239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}