{"id":3518,"date":"2009-10-21T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2009-10-21T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:38:10","slug":"introducing-barnes-and-nobles-nook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3518","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Barnes and Noble&#8217;s &#8220;Nook&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Barnes and Noble eBook Reader the &#8220;<strong><em>Nook&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> was launched yesterday at a\u00c2\u00a04 p.m news conference in Manhattan. Read the play by play on <strong><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/strong> Technology page <strong><a title=\"The Nook\" href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/20\/live-blog-barnes-noble-unveils-e-reader\/?hp\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00c2\u00a0<strong>$259<\/strong> it&#8217;s priced to compete with\u00c2\u00a0Kindle, also priced at <strong>$259<\/strong>. (That&#8217;s a missed opportunity&#8230; <strong>$239<\/strong> would have sold a million of them and made an indelible mark on the eBook marketplace.)<\/p>\n<p>I guess the name will grow on me, <em>yah?<\/em> I like the look of the Nook. Off we go, another machine for your reading pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Barnes and Noble eBook Reader the &#8220;Nook&#8221; was launched yesterday at a\u00c2\u00a04 p.m news conference in Manhattan. Read the play by play on The New York Times Technology page here. At\u00c2\u00a0$259 it&#8217;s priced to compete with\u00c2\u00a0Kindle, also priced at $259. (That&#8217;s a missed opportunity&#8230; $239 would have sold a million of them and made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3518\">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":[3,5,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518"}],"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=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}