{
  "id": 3048443,
  "title": "Amazon hikes prices on Echos, Kindles, Fire TVs as much as 60% - here's what you'll pay now",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/amazon-hikes-prices-on-echos-kindles-fire-tvs-as-much-as-60-heres",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-24T14:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ZDNet",
    "slug": "zdnet",
    "url": "https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-raises-prices-echos-kindles/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Amazon has increased prices on Echo devices, Kindle e-readers, Fire TV sticks, and eero routers, with some items seeing price hikes of up to 60%. The price increases are attributed to the rising costs of memory and storage chips. Amazon stated that they absorbed these increases as much as possible but had to adjust prices across their product lines.",
  "summary": "Be prepared to pay more for an Echo Dot, 16 GB Kindle, Fire TV Stick HD, and Amazon eero 7 mesh router, among several other products.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Mashable",
        "title": "Amazon quietly hikes prices on Kindles, Echo speakers, Fire TV sticks, and eero routers: See the full list",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/amazon-quietly-hikes-prices-on-kindles-echo-speakers-fire-tv-sticks",
        "published": "2026-08-24T15:56:22.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}