{"id":3626,"date":"2012-09-14T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2362501"},"modified":"2012-09-14T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:03:00","slug":"cloud-computing-amazon-demands-fee-to-escape-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-amazon-demands-fee-to-escape-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Amazon Demands Fee to Escape Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After swinging back and forth like a garden gate in the face of online criticism, Amazon finally decided it would let customers who don\u2019t want ads on their widgets opt out if they pay an extra $15 for the new Kindle Fires it brought out last week. Amazon is using ads to keep the price of the tablets between $199 and $499 less than iPads. Ad-free Kindle e-readers cost $20 more. The company claims from its e-reader experience that \u201cvery few people choose to opt out.\u201d Oh, by the way, it appears the high-end Kindle, due to ship November 20, doesn\u2019t have FCC approval yet probably because of the skinny newfangled 4G modem Amazon designed for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2362501\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After swinging back and forth like a garden gate in the face of online criticism, Amazon finally decided it would let customers who don\u2019t want ads on their widgets opt out if they pay an extra $15 for the new Kindle Fires it brought out last week. Am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}