{"id":8724,"date":"2009-07-09T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-09T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T10:48:00","slug":"amazon-cuts-kindle-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/8724-amazon-cuts-kindle-price.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon cuts Kindle price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The online retail giant offered the Kindle on the homepage of its website for the new price but did not make any separate announcement about the move.<\/p>\n<p>The price cut does not apply to the large-screen version of the Kindle, the Kindle DX, which still costs $489.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon does not reveal sales figures for the Kindle and chief executive Jeff Bezos said at the annual shareholders meeting in May that the company may never reveal the numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=180946\"><strong>Amazon Kindle<\/strong><\/a> discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has cut the price of its electronic book reader, the Kindle, from $359 to $299.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}