{"id":20117,"date":"2018-01-09T13:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20117"},"modified":"2018-01-09T13:08:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:08:01","slug":"the-kindle-moment-fire-and-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/the-kindle-moment-fire-and-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindle Moment: Fire and Fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/the-kindle-moment\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/the-kindle-moment\/\">\n<p>You&rsquo;ll note that the Kindle version currently costs more than the (unavailable) hardcover. This is a sort of surge pricing for books; why discount the hottest book of the season? It&rsquo;s not a loss leader like the latest novels by Dan Brown or Stephen King, it&rsquo;s a must-read that people want now, because it won&rsquo;t be as interesting in a week, after many of the salacious elements are reported in the press.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not often that a book like this drives demand so much that the publisher can&rsquo;t keep up. Amazon is stepping in to help meet that demand, shifting a lot of readers from print to ebook. Even if they don&rsquo;t have Kindles, they can read it on their phones or tablets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I bet there are a lot of shared highlights.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk McElhearn: You&rsquo;ll note that the Kindle version currently costs more than the (unavailable) hardcover. This is a sort of surge pricing for books; why discount the hottest book of the season? It&rsquo;s not a loss leader like the latest novels by Dan Brown or Stephen King, it&rsquo;s a must-read that people want now, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19,101,166,165],"class_list":["post-20117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-ebooks","tag-kindle"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20118,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20117\/revisions\/20118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}