{"id":3602,"date":"2009-10-29T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2009-10-29T10:24:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T15:24:11","slug":"149-ebook-reader-from-ectaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3602","title":{"rendered":"$149 eBook Reader from ECTACO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"jetBook-Lite at Bookseller.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/101326-budget-e-reader-launches-costing-91.html\" target=\"_self\">Bookseller.com<\/a><\/strong> has a story about a new <strong>eBook Reader<\/strong> that&#8217;s hitting the eBook Revolution\u00c2\u00a0at <strong>$149<\/strong> (US). It&#8217;s maker, <strong>ECTACO<\/strong>, is declaring it the cheapest eReading machine on the market. The <strong>jetBook-Lite<\/strong> uses four AA batteries and promises 23 hours of continuous reading. On top of that it works with Barnes and Noble eBook store, and runs various formats including PDF. Read about it <strong><a title=\"jetBook-Lite\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/101326-budget-e-reader-launches-costing-91.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>More on the story including pictures and video\u00c2\u00a0at <strong><a title=\"jetBook-Lite at engadget.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/10\/18\/ectaco-jetbook-lite-does-everything-it-can-to-claim-cheapest-us\/\" target=\"_self\">engadget.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Early critics point out that it doesn&#8217;t have the\u00c2\u00a0various\u00c2\u00a0functions offered by the industry leaders, but that&#8217;s kind of a given, considering its price.<\/p>\n<p>So, before you\u00c2\u00a0hate this thing right away, take a look at it at least.\u00c2\u00a0Its designers\u00c2\u00a0know that we need a\u00c2\u00a0cheaper\u00c2\u00a0eBook Reader to allow the universal adoption of the device.<\/p>\n<p>Especially if publishers are trying to <em><strong><a title=\"Those Bastards!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3550\" target=\"_self\">legislate HIGH eBook prices<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookseller.com has a story about a new eBook Reader that&#8217;s hitting the eBook Revolution\u00c2\u00a0at $149 (US). It&#8217;s maker, ECTACO, is declaring it the cheapest eReading machine on the market. The jetBook-Lite uses four AA batteries and promises 23 hours of continuous reading. On top of that it works with Barnes and Noble eBook store, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3602\">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\/3602"}],"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=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}