{"id":8135,"date":"2013-10-29T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2013-10-29T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:38:13","slug":"kindle-matchbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/kindle-matchbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle MatchBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/10\/29\/5042058\/amazon-launches-matchbook-offering-cheap-digital-copies-of-print-books\">Chris Welch<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/10\/29\/5042058\/amazon-launches-matchbook-offering-cheap-digital-copies-of-print-books\"><p>Amazon&rsquo;s Kindle MatchBook service has gone live today, allowing customers to buy a heavily discounted Kindle copy of physical books they&rsquo;ve purchased from the online retailer. Prices range between free and $2.99, offering a quick and cheap way to expand your Amazon ebook library. And on that note, there&rsquo;s good news: Amazon says that 70,000 books are enrolled in MatchBook at launch, dwarfing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/9\/3\/4689346\/amazon-kindle-matchbook-bundles-physical-books-with-ebooks\">the original 10,000 titles it announced last month<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a great idea, but I&rsquo;ve been purchasing books from Amazon since the 90s, and it was only able to match 14 of them. Many of the unmatched books are available from Amazon&mdash;for full price.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Welch:Amazon&rsquo;s Kindle MatchBook service has gone live today, allowing customers to buy a heavily discounted Kindle copy of physical books they&rsquo;ve purchased from the online retailer. Prices range between free and $2.99, offering a quick and cheap way to expand your Amazon ebook library. And on that note, there&rsquo;s good news: Amazon says that [&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":[2],"tags":[19,165,662],"class_list":["post-8135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-kindle","tag-matchbook"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135","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=8135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}