{"id":2091,"date":"2009-05-29T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2009-05-29T09:43:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T14:43:53","slug":"usa-today-boasts-arrival-of-kindle-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2091","title":{"rendered":"USA Today Boasts Arrival of Kindle Rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know this article kind of spoils\u00c2\u00a0the announcement of the <strong>Plastic Logic eReader&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 impending release by disclosing that <strong>USA Today<\/strong> has &#8216;e-inked&#8217; a content deal with them. How can they be\u00c2\u00a0impartial reporting on this topic? USA Today has a vested interest. So the\u00c2\u00a0online version of a struggling newspaper likes\u00c2\u00a0the Plastic Logic\u00c2\u00a0eReader. Since they hope\u00c2\u00a0this eReader will save them from extinction,\u00c2\u00a0it&#8217;s hardly surprising that\u00c2\u00a0they&#8217;re impressed by the thing. Read the Plastic Logic story <a title=\"Kindle Competition Approaches.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/technologylive\/2009\/05\/its-taking-awhile-to-get-here-but-the-thin-plastic-logic-ebook-reader-initially-unveiled-at-a-demo-conference-in-septemb.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The same murky integrity surrounded\u00c2\u00a0the New York Times&#8217; positive impression of the Kindle DX because <em>they&#8217;ve <\/em>got a content deal with Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned Plastic Logic&#8217;s eReading machine back in <a title=\"Sweet Ride from Plastic Logic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=414\" target=\"_self\">January<\/a> before any mention of content deals and as machinery goes, it&#8217;s a beautiful piece of tech. Take a look, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know this article kind of spoils\u00c2\u00a0the announcement of the Plastic Logic eReader&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 impending release by disclosing that USA Today has &#8216;e-inked&#8217; a content deal with them. How can they be\u00c2\u00a0impartial reporting on this topic? USA Today has a vested interest. So the\u00c2\u00a0online version of a struggling newspaper likes\u00c2\u00a0the Plastic Logic\u00c2\u00a0eReader. Since they hope\u00c2\u00a0this eReader &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2091\">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":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091"}],"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=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}