{"id":2506,"date":"2009-07-07T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2009-07-07T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T13:42:23","slug":"249-ditto-ebook-reader-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2506","title":{"rendered":"$249 Ditto eBook Reader has Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming out of the blocks looking a lot like front-runner Amazon&#8217;s Kindle 2, the &#8216;wired&#8217; eBook reader <strong><a title=\"The Ditto Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dittobook.com\/\" target=\"_self\">DITTO<\/a><\/strong> has leapt into the race with a crowd pleasing price of <strong>$249<\/strong>. Read the story at Publisher&#8217;s Weekly <a title=\"Ditto has arrived.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6669030.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. (Ditto = Digital Interface Total Text Organizer&#8230; glad they went with Ditto&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that Kindle 2&#8217;s solid $359 price tag is a proclammation that Amazon is only\u00c2\u00a0interested in nursing an expensive\u00c2\u00a0&#8216;hard-cover&#8217; mindset among the economic north side of mainstream adopters leaving a $110 gap that Ditto sounds quite capable of filling.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Ditto<\/strong> is priced for a wider mainstream\u00c2\u00a0eager to join the eBook Revolution. Similar to the affordable <a title=\"Cool-er by Interead\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1968\" target=\"_self\">Cool-ER<\/a>, the Ditto has a 6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d inch black &amp; white e-ink screen, reads text and PDF as well as the universal epub format, plays MP3 sound files and boasts\u00c2\u00a0a long battery life.\u00c2\u00a0On top of that it&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0SD card slot expandable up to 2GB of storage\u00c2\u00a0will allow you to load\u00c2\u00a0a full library of works through its USB connection.<\/p>\n<p>Now, imagine when Ditto or Cool-er opens up the market with a $99 version, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming out of the blocks looking a lot like front-runner Amazon&#8217;s Kindle 2, the &#8216;wired&#8217; eBook reader DITTO has leapt into the race with a crowd pleasing price of $249. Read the story at Publisher&#8217;s Weekly here. (Ditto = Digital Interface Total Text Organizer&#8230; glad they went with Ditto&#8230;) It&#8217;s clear that Kindle 2&#8217;s solid &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2506\">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":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506"}],"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=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}