{"id":8729,"date":"2011-05-26T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2011-05-26T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T14:28:13","slug":"amazon-kindle-3g-with-special-offers-164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8729","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle 3G with Special Offers $164"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat predictably, <strong>Amazon<\/strong> has answered the challenge from <strong>Barnes and Noble&#8217;s Nook Simple Touch Reader ($139 USD)<\/strong> and <strong>Kobo&#8217;s eReader Touch Edition ($129.99 USD)<\/strong> with the release of their <a title=\"Kindle Press Release at Marketwatch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/introducing-the-lowest-price-3g-e-reader-kindle-3g-with-special-offers-for-only-164-2011-05-24\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Amazon Kindle 3G with Special Offers for only $164 USD<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, Amazon&#8217;s offering their <strong>Kindle 3G<\/strong> (usually priced at <strong>$189 USD<\/strong>) for <strong>$25 less<\/strong>, but subsidized by on-screen ads. <a title=\"$164 3G Kindle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/05\/24\/kindle-3g-gets-ad-supported-164-version-sells-your-eyeballs-fo\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a> has more on the story.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what&#8217;s <strong>Apple iPad<\/strong> got to say about all of this competition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat predictably, Amazon has answered the challenge from Barnes and Noble&#8217;s Nook Simple Touch Reader ($139 USD) and Kobo&#8217;s eReader Touch Edition ($129.99 USD) with the release of their Amazon Kindle 3G with Special Offers for only $164 USD. Basically, Amazon&#8217;s offering their Kindle 3G (usually priced at $189 USD) for $25 less, but subsidized &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8729\">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":[12,15,14,16,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729"}],"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=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8743,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/8743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}