{"id":1492,"date":"2009-04-04T07:53:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2009-04-04T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T12:59:00","slug":"rupert-murdochs-mystery-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s Mystery Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll say this much. For a guy who once owned a steam-driven car, <strong><a title=\"All things Rupert\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupert_Murdoch\" target=\"_self\">Rupert Murdoch<\/a><\/strong> is an elder statesman of publishing who ain&#8217;t afraid of no newfangled gadgets.<em> Go Rupert!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He likes the look of Kindle but thinks he can do better, so he&#8217;s investing in a company that will build him a device with a bigger screen and 4 color display&#8211;with the capability to do &#8216;everything right there.&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 Now if he&#8217;ll just arrange loans for us so we can buy the thing. If it&#8217;s going to be anything like <a title=\"Fujitsu's Fabulous Machine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1350\" target=\"_self\">Fujitsu&#8217;s<\/a> four-color rival it will ring the bell at about <strong>$1,000<\/strong>. So far no one knows who he&#8217;s wooing with his millions, but it will be an interesting thing to watch, <em>yah?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a title=\"Rupert Murdoch's Mystery Machine\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20090402\/live-from-the-cable-show-rupert-murdoch-and-jeff-bewkes\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> at <em>All Things Digital<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on board as long as he doesn&#8217;t cook up some mysterious or miraculous retrotech name\u00c2\u00a0 for it like <strong>Rupert&#8217;s Fabulatronic Electrical Book Scope <\/strong>or the <strong>Murodocular <\/strong>.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll say this much. For a guy who once owned a steam-driven car, Rupert Murdoch is an elder statesman of publishing who ain&#8217;t afraid of no newfangled gadgets. Go Rupert! He likes the look of Kindle but thinks he can do better, so he&#8217;s investing in a company that will build him a device with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1492\">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":[11,8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492"}],"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=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}