{"id":3238,"date":"2009-09-23T11:51:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T16:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2009-09-23T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T16:51:24","slug":"barnes-and-nobles-ebook-reader-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3238","title":{"rendered":"Barnes and Noble&#8217;s eBook Reader Closer to Reality&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barnes &amp; Noble<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 has competed with <strong>Amazon <\/strong>as an online book retailer for years and now stands poised\u00c2\u00a0to open the battle on another front.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brighthand.com<\/strong> has a <strong><a title=\"B&amp;N vs AMAZON\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brighthand.com\/default.asp?newsID=15665&amp;news=Barnes+Noble+E-books+Amazon+Kindle\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a><\/strong> about<strong> Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s<\/strong> own eBook reader receiving <strong>FCC<\/strong> approval. (That approval is a clear\u00c2\u00a0signal that the B&amp;N\u00c2\u00a0device will offer wireless eBook downloads similar to Amazon&#8217;s Kindle.)<\/p>\n<p>Other than a simple outline of the device the filing on the product offers little else. Check out the <strong><a title=\"BN vs AMAZON\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brighthand.com\/default.asp?newsID=15665&amp;news=Barnes+Noble+E-books+Amazon+Kindle\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a><\/strong> to see it.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon must be burning the midnight oil to come up with ways to maintain whatever lead they still have. I would love to be a fly on the wall in the Kindle boardroom, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnes &amp; Noble\u00c2\u00a0 has competed with Amazon as an online book retailer for years and now stands poised\u00c2\u00a0to open the battle on another front. Brighthand.com has a story about Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s own eBook reader receiving FCC approval. (That approval is a clear\u00c2\u00a0signal that the B&amp;N\u00c2\u00a0device will offer wireless eBook downloads similar to Amazon&#8217;s Kindle.) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3238\">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":[3,8,9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238"}],"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=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}