{"id":30545,"date":"2012-10-07T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/cold-days-in-hell.html"},"modified":"2012-10-07T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T19:43:10","slug":"cold-days-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/cold-days-in-hell.html","title":{"rendered":"Cold Days (in Hell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Penguin: You are not doing yourself, nor your bestselling author Jim Butcher, any favors by setting the hardcover <i>and<\/i> Kindle price for the newest Dresden novel at $27.95. \u00a0Even &quot;discounted&quot; the h\/c is at $16.77 and the Kindle at $14.99.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#39;ll wait. I suspect others will not, but will not instead acquire the book in any fashion that profits you or, sadly, the author.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fecx.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F51YmY0ryQNL._AA278_PIkin4%2CBottomRight%2C-46%2C22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cold-Days-Novel-Dresden-ebook\/dp\/B0090UOJAI\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1349638254&#038;sr=8-1'>Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files: Jim Butcher: Amazon.com: Kindle Store<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files: Jim Butcher: Amazon.com: Kindle Store\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Ximh7JDjBLt' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Penguin: You are not doing yourself, nor your bestselling author Jim Butcher, any favors by setting the hardcover and Kindle price for the newest Dresden novel at $27.95. \u00a0Even &quot;discounted&quot; the h\/c is at $16.77 and the Kindle at $14.99. So I&#39;ll wait. I suspect others will not, but will not instead acquire the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/cold-days-in-hell.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold Days (in Hell)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25289,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/kindle-vs-kindle-fight.html","url_meta":{"origin":30545,"position":0},"title":"Kindle vs. Kindle &#8230; Fight!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jan-12 2:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Will the Fire (which sold an amazing number of units this holiday season) kill its eInk Kindle brethren (and associated other dedicated e-readers)? 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