{"id":3658,"date":"2009-11-04T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T17:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2009-11-04T12:39:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T17:39:32","slug":"the-future-of-ereaders-is-under-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3658","title":{"rendered":"The future of eReaders is under $100&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can wait that long. I know I&#8217;m gearing up to buy something now. But patience is old-fashioned, like\u00c2\u00a0virtue, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Chip maker <strong><a title=\"Marvell is Marvelous!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marvell.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Marvell<\/a><\/strong> is doing two things. They have developed a new ARM-based processor designed specifically for the eBook market. They plan to use it with their other components in low-priced, multi-functional eReaders with six-inch screens. Read the story\u00c2\u00a0at <strong><a title=\"eReaders under $100...\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2009\/11\/02\/marvells-new-chips-will-bring-cost-of-ebooks-to-under-100\/\" target=\"_self\">VentureBeat<\/a><\/strong>. The plan is to wickedly undercut Amazon&#8217;s Kindle (and eBook reading brethren) and sell eReaders for $100 or less. The new microprocessors will allow\u00c2\u00a0more functions on the devices while still delivering on the low price.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not that far off in time\u00c2\u00a0either, with their projection of a\u00c2\u00a0first quarter of 2010 release.<\/p>\n<p>Marvell is also\u00c2\u00a0delivering fantastic glimpses into this affordable eBook Reading future. Take some time to look around their <strong><a title=\"Marvell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marvell.com\/\" target=\"_self\">site<\/a><\/strong>. You&#8217;ll see they&#8217;re swinging deals with other device designers like<strong> Plastic Logic<\/strong>, and that can only mean good things for the eBook Revloution. Considering how quickly all of this has developed, can universal adoption of eBook reading be far off?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can wait that long. I know I&#8217;m gearing up to buy something now. But patience is old-fashioned, like\u00c2\u00a0virtue, yah? Chip maker Marvell is doing two things. They have developed a new ARM-based processor designed specifically for the eBook market. They plan to use it with their other components in low-priced, multi-functional eReaders with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3658\">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":[3,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658"}],"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=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}