{"id":4049,"date":"2009-12-14T12:42:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2009-12-14T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T17:42:41","slug":"kindle-nook-now-joo-joo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4049","title":{"rendered":"Kindle, Nook now Joo-Joo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> pointed us to a <strong>CNET <\/strong><a title=\"JooJoo Reader\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-19882_3-10410960-250.html?tag=mncol;txt\" target=\"_self\"><strong>story<\/strong><\/a> where they&#8217;ve nabbed a journalist&#8217;s demo of the new <strong>JooJoo Web Slate <\/strong>for appraisal. They seem to like its lines and stylish profile. And functionality gets passing grades as well, but at <strong>$499,<\/strong> Fusion Garage CEO <strong>Chandra Rathakrishnans\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>has his work cut out for him.<\/p>\n<p>With one look at the JooJoo (formerly TechCrunch&#8217;s <strong><a title=\"We mentioned CrunchPad here...\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2172\" target=\"_self\">Crunchpad<\/a><\/strong>) you can see they&#8217;re stepping in with a device that offers the larger profile\u00c2\u00a0of the rumored Apple Tablet. (They even mark the iPhone as its touch-screen\u00c2\u00a0inspiration.) It arrives with some controversy too. The Guardian&#8217;s Technology Blog gives some <strong><a title=\"Legal Debate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/blog\/2009\/dec\/11\/joojoo-crunchpad-arrington-lawsuit\" target=\"_self\">background<\/a><\/strong> on the litigation surrounding the device.<\/p>\n<p>It sure looks interesting, and the wide screen format says &#8220;newspaper\/magazine&#8221; to me more than &#8220;eBooks.&#8221; Once you get over the price tag, you can watch videos between chapters <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorgen pointed us to a CNET story where they&#8217;ve nabbed a journalist&#8217;s demo of the new JooJoo Web Slate for appraisal. They seem to like its lines and stylish profile. And functionality gets passing grades as well, but at $499, Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnans\u00c2\u00a0has his work cut out for him. With one look at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4049\">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\/4049"}],"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=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}