{"id":6103,"date":"2007-11-20T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/kindle-nobody-wants-this-thing.html"},"modified":"2007-11-20T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T12:44:09","slug":"kindle-nobody-wants-this-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/kindle-nobody-wants-this-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"Kindle: Nobody Wants This Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">OK, I have heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/11\/20\/3107679.htm\">Kindle<\/a> and other e-book readers and in my opinion, no one wants one of these things. I could be more eloquent and wax poetic about how this device is not the same as a book and people will not warm up to it, etc but i won&rsquo;t.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">So in short, I am a huge fan of Amazon and this is a great idea for them to try but I think no one wants one. If they sell more than 100,000 of these things I think the earth will stop spinning.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I would love to be proven wrong but I am pretty sure I won&rsquo;t be. Sorry Amazon. I hope this doesn&rsquo;t cause my product shipments to slow down around the holidays. \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/-introducing-amazon-kindle-\/2007\/11\/19\/3105420.htm\">Introducing Amazon Kindle<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I have heard about Kindle and other e-book readers and in my opinion, no one wants one of these things. I could be more eloquent and wax poetic about how this device is not the same as a book and people will not warm up to it, etc but i won&rsquo;t. &nbsp; So in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}