{"id":1113,"date":"2007-11-16T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2007-11-16T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:54:02","slug":"amazon_kindle_due_out_monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/amazon_kindle_due_out_monday\/","title":{"rendered":"amazon kindle due out monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In CNET news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Amazon-to-debut-Kindle-e-book-reader-Monday\/2100-1025_3-6218828.html?tag=nefd.lede\">&#8220;Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader Monday.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nWhile it&#8217;s got more going for it than any of its predecessors or present competitors -?\u009d wi-fi connection, seamless integration with the biggest online store in the world, access to dozens of periodicals, <i>keyword search<\/i> for crying out loud, which the Sony Reader still bafflingly lacks -?\u009d I&#8217;m skeptical about the Kindle. If the device ($399) and individual electronic titles (barely marked down from print) weren&#8217;t so absurdly overpriced, it might make more sense to readers. Over at Teleread, David Rothman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleread.org\/blog\/?p=7649\">wonders<\/a> about the solidity of Jeff Bezos&#8217; long-term commitment to books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In CNET news: &#8220;Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader Monday.&#8221; While it&#8217;s got more going for it than any of its predecessors or present competitors -?\u009d wi-fi connection, seamless integration with the biggest online store in the world, access to dozens of periodicals, keyword search for crying out loud, which the Sony Reader still bafflingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,192,549,1546,1669],"tags":[2367],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-books","category-ebooks","category-publishing","category-screenreading","tag-ebooks-amazon-screenreading-books-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}