{"id":13380,"date":"2013-05-29T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13380"},"modified":"2013-05-29T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:17:00","slug":"dedicated-ereaders-still-in-the-game-kobo-aura-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13380","title":{"rendered":"Dedicated eReaders still in the game. Kobo Aura HD surges."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"New Kobo Aura eReader pushes Kobo's growth.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itproportal.com\/2013\/05\/29\/kobo-announces-q1-results-with-strong-sales-of-aura-hd-driving-growth\/\"><strong>ITProPortal<\/strong><\/a> reports that <strong>Kobo<\/strong> has announced <strong>Q1<\/strong> results showing gains with their <a title=\"Kobo Aura Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itproportal.com\/reviews\/tablets\/kobo-aura-hd-review\/\"><strong>Kobo Aura HD eReader<\/strong><\/a> driving the growth. \u00a0(<strong>27%<\/strong> of all <strong>Kobo<\/strong> devices sold were the <strong>Kobo HD Aura<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the heels of doom-sayers predicting the end of dedicated eReaders in favor of tablets. Looks like book lovers know what they want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITProPortal reports that Kobo has announced Q1 results showing gains with their Kobo Aura HD eReader driving the growth. \u00a0(27% of all Kobo devices sold were the Kobo HD Aura.) This comes on the heels of doom-sayers predicting the end of dedicated eReaders in favor of tablets. Looks like book lovers know what they want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,5,8,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380"}],"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=13380"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13388,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions\/13388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}