{"id":24721,"date":"2011-03-01T01:21:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T00:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=24721"},"modified":"2011-03-01T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T07:22:15","slug":"il-kindle-gratuito-possibile-a-novembre-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/il-kindle-gratuito-possibile-a-novembre-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Il Kindle gratuito possibile a novembre 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2011\/02\/free_kindle_thi.php\">Via Technium<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/thetechnium\/\/kindlepriceforecast2-1.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"kindlepriceforecast2-1.png\" width=\"286\" height=\"334\" \/><br \/>\nIn October 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/\">John Walkenbach<\/a> noticed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/another_kindle_2_price_reduction\/\">price of the Kindle<\/a> was falling at a consistent rate, lowering almost on a schedule. By  June 2010, the rate was so unwavering that he could easily forecast the  date at which the <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/comments\/free_kindles\/\">Kindle would be free<\/a>: November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Since then I&#8217;ve mentioned this forecast to all kinds of folks. In  August, 2010 I had the chance to point it out to Jeff Bezos, CEO of  Amazon. He merely smiled and said, &#8220;Oh, you noticed that!&#8221; And then  smiled again.<\/p>\n<p>When I brought it to the attention of publishing veterans they would  often laugh nervously. How outrageous! they would say. It must cost  something to make? The trick was figuring out how Amazon could bundle  the free Kindle and still make money. My thought was the cell phone  model: a free Kindle if you buy X number of e-books.<\/p>\n<p>But last week Michael Arrington at TechCruch reported on a rumor  which hints at a more clever plan: a free Kindle for every Prime  customer of Amazon. Prime customers pay $79 per year for free 2-day  shipping, and as of last week, free unlimited streaming movies (a la  Netflix). Arrington <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/12\/amazon-wants-to-give-a-free-kindle-to-all-amazon-prime-subscribers\/\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Technium In October 2009 John Walkenbach noticed that the price of the Kindle was falling at a consistent rate, lowering almost on a schedule. By June 2010, the rate was so unwavering that he could easily forecast the date at which the Kindle would be free: November 2011. Since then I&#8217;ve mentioned this forecast &#8230; <a title=\"Il Kindle gratuito possibile a novembre 2011\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/il-kindle-gratuito-possibile-a-novembre-2011\/\" aria-label=\"Per saperne di pi\u00f9 su Il Kindle gratuito possibile a novembre 2011\">Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[48,118,638],"class_list":["post-24721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economia","category-internet","tag-amazon","tag-ebook","tag-kindle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24723,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions\/24723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}