{"id":2678,"date":"2009-07-28T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2009-07-28T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:08:09","slug":"sonys-new-reader-and-apples-rumored-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2678","title":{"rendered":"Sony&#8217;s New Reader and Apple&#8217;s Rumored Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <b>Sony PRS-700BC Reader Digital Book<\/b> is reviewed by <b>Computer Shopper<\/b> <a title=\"Sony PRS-700BC Reader Digital Book\" href=\"http:\/\/computershopper.com\/shoptalk\/peripherals\/new-review-sony-prs-700bc-reader-digital-book\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/computershopper.com\/shoptalk\/peripherals\/new-review-sony-prs-700bc-reader-digital-book\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. The updated reader offers PDF support and built-in book light (which gets high marks at eBook Rumors) and a sturdy all-metal frame. That trumps Kindle&#8217;s plastic body that reports suggest is brittle for a hand-held device.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also continued with their broad spectrum file format support now reading copy-protected BBeB Book and ePub files, open BBeB, ePub, TXT, RTF, and Microsoft Word files. The article has accolades for the touchscreen keyboard too! Pricey machine at over<b> $400<\/b> but all the prices are coming down.<\/p>\n<p><b>Interesting development over at Apple<\/b> as the talk heats up about its rumored Tablet.&nbsp; &#8220;Apple is about to launch a tablet computer that will be like an enlarged version of the iPhone and iPod Touch.&#8221; Read the rest of the article <a title=\"The Apple Table Finally?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/jul\/27\/apple-tablet-rumours-music-ebook\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/jul\/27\/apple-tablet-rumours-music-ebook\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> at the <b>guardian.co.uk<\/b>. Intriguing little hints there, <i>yah<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Sony PRS-700BC Reader Digital Book is reviewed by Computer Shopper here. The updated reader offers PDF support and built-in book light (which gets high marks at eBook Rumors) and a sturdy all-metal frame. That trumps Kindle&#8217;s plastic body that reports suggest is brittle for a hand-held device. They&#8217;ve also continued with their broad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2678\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678"}],"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=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}