{"id":945,"date":"2011-04-11T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2011-04-11T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:25:14","slug":"updated-free-kindle-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/updated-free-kindle-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated Free Kindle Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kindle is now <a href=\"http:\/\/phx.corporate-ir.net\/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=1549144&amp;highlight=\">available for $114 with Special Offers<\/a> (aka advertising).<\/p>\n<p>Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2011\/02\/free_kindle_thi.php\">prior<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/comments\/free_kindles\/\">charts<\/a>, I created an updated forecast:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-946\" title=\"updatedkindle0411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/updatedkindle0411-540x340.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/updatedkindle0411-540x340.png 540w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/updatedkindle0411-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/updatedkindle0411-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/updatedkindle0411.png 671w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The idea of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2011\/02\/free_kindle_thi.php\">free Kindle explained by Kevin Kelly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><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><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is interesting that the forecasted free Kindle date is slipping. (Forecasted to be free <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/another_kindle_2_price_reduction\/\">after June 2011<\/a>, then forecasted for <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/comments\/free_kindles\/\">after November 2011<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kindle is now available for $114 with Special Offers (aka advertising). Based on prior charts, I created an updated forecast: The idea of the free Kindle explained by Kevin Kelly: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[542,601,254,600],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-amazon","tag-forecast","tag-free","tag-kindle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}