{"id":337,"date":"2010-11-03T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesarbonn.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2010-11-03T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:08:30","slug":"amazon-please-stop-trying-to-sell-me-a-cover-for-my-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, Please Stop Trying to Sell Me a Cover for My Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I bought an Amazon Kindle. It wasn’t the cheapest one but the one with both wi-fi and 3G. I realized I needed one at home, and I don’t have wi-fi there, nor do I want to get wi-fi just so I can use my Kindle. Anyway, I’ve been really happy with it. I’ve downloaded a few books, and now I get the Washington Post delivered to my Kindle each and every day so I don’t have to buy a hard copy of USA Today (which I’ve described as trying to eat candy for breakfast…no substance, lots of news). So I’ve been happy.<\/p>\n

Well, when I bought the Kindle, I realized I needed a cover for it, so I bought a really nice M-Edge cover. I’m happy with it, too.<\/p>\n

Well, every time I try to sign onto Amazon, Amazon tries to sell me a Kindle cover. I’m good. I’ve got one. Thanks. But it has a huge presentation at the center of my Amazon screen. Rather than try to sell me books (which would be useful on this book reader I just bought), Amazon is convinced it needs to sell me a cover.<\/p>\n

I don’t need a cover. I bought a cover. I’m good. Let’s move onto books.<\/p>\n

OUTFIT YOUR KINDLE, the ad tells me in very large letters with a spread of new covers that I don’t need.<\/p>\n

I looked for some kind of procedure to disable these ads, just in hope that I might be able to start seeing ads for books I might want to buy. But no, there was nothing I could find.<\/p>\n

So, now that I’ve decided not to buy a Kindle cover based on these ads, Amazon has now started emailing me about my “need” for a Kindle cover. I received two separate emails in the last week, all designed to “assist” me in finding a new cover\/holder that I already have.<\/p>\n

Look, Amazon, I understand how you want to monopolize and make as much money as you can, but let’s be frank here. I don’t need two covers for my Kindle. I am happy with the one\u00a0I bought. Stop trying to sell me crap I don’t need, because I already bought it when I bought the damn Kindle in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I bought an Amazon Kindle. It wasn’t the cheapest one but the one with both wi-fi and 3G. I realized I needed one at home, and I don’t have wi-fi there, nor do I want to get wi-fi just so I can use my Kindle. Anyway, I’ve been really happy with … Continue reading Amazon, Please Stop Trying to Sell Me a Cover for My Kindle<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[66,1823,178,418,713,1041,1412],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-buying-stuff","tag-economy","tag-kindle","tag-purchasing","tag-web-sites"],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarbonn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}