{"id":2570,"date":"2009-07-14T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2009-07-14T08:35:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T13:35:53","slug":"does-this-surprise-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2570","title":{"rendered":"Does this surprise anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Techshout.com<\/strong> has a story about a Chinese-made eBook reader that bears a striking resemblance to Amazon&#8217;s Kindle. Read the story <a title=\"Amazon Kindle's Chinese Twin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techshout.com\/gadgets\/2009\/13\/wefound-amazon-kindle-2-e-book-reader-twin-made-by-founder-international\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s surprising, when we look at the rumored<strong> $210<\/strong> price tag and year-end release, is that the North American companies insist on leaving this price gap in their defenses. After its release in China, it will only be a matter of time before its &#8216;developer&#8217; Peking University Founder Group\u00c2\u00a0sells them\u00c2\u00a0at Wal-mart at half that price.<\/p>\n<p>North American companies might be able to profiteer before its arrival in\u00c2\u00a0western stores, but that&#8217;s time that could be better spent capturing the marketplace with competitively priced eBook Readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techshout.com has a story about a Chinese-made eBook reader that bears a striking resemblance to Amazon&#8217;s Kindle. Read the story here. What&#8217;s surprising, when we look at the rumored $210 price tag and year-end release, is that the North American companies insist on leaving this price gap in their defenses. After its release in China, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2570\">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":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570"}],"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=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}