{"id":11915,"date":"2012-10-11T10:21:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11915"},"modified":"2012-10-11T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T15:21:51","slug":"good-reasons-for-free-or-low-priced-ereaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11915","title":{"rendered":"Good reasons for free or low-priced eReaders."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"5 Reasons Free eReaders would be good for the eBook Revolution.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbookworld.com\/2012\/five-reasons-why-a-free-e-reader-would-be-great-for-publishing-and-readers\/\" target=\"_self\">Digital Book World<\/a><\/strong> offers five reasons why a <strong>Free eReader<\/strong> would be good for publishing and readers. As the price of eBook Readers continues to drop, this changes the landscape and opens the marketplace to the mainstream. <strong>Free <\/strong>would be nice, but not if it means publishers will try to reinstate their old high prices for eBook titles. (Been there, done that. <em>Still <\/em>there, in some cases&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>On a similar thread the <strong><a title=\"Cheap eReader coming from German firm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2215730\/Txtr-beagle-The-10-electronic-book-kill-Kindle.html?openGraphAuthor=%2Fhome%2Fsearch.html%3Fs%3D%26authornamef%3DMark%2BPrigg&amp;videoPlayerURL=http%3A%2F%2Fc.brightcove.com%2Fservices%2Fviewer%2Ffederated_f9%3FisVid%3D1%26isUI%3D1%26publisherID%3D1418450360%26playerID%3D72484359001%26domain%3Dembed%26videoId%3D&amp;hasBCVideo=true&amp;BCVideoID=1893157333001\" target=\"_self\">MailOnline<\/a><\/strong> says a <strong>German <\/strong>firm is set to offer a<strong> <\/strong><span><strong>\u00c2\u00a310 Txtr beagle E Ink eReader<\/strong> that runs on <strong>AAA<\/strong> batteries. You load it with eBooks via a cellphone <strong>bluetooth <\/strong>connection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Book World offers five reasons why a Free eReader would be good for publishing and readers. As the price of eBook Readers continues to drop, this changes the landscape and opens the marketplace to the mainstream. Free would be nice, but not if it means publishers will try to reinstate their old high prices &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11915\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,5,8,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11915"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11928,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions\/11928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}