{"id":4939,"date":"2010-03-03T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2010-03-03T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T15:24:10","slug":"looks-like-a-march-3rd-ebook-revolution-grab-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4939","title":{"rendered":"Looks like a March 3rd eBook Revolution Grab Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> continues its charge into <strong>2010<\/strong>, we find ourselves with a varied but unexciting news day. So I&#8217;ve got a grab bag of links.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, thanks to <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for a link to\u00c2\u00a0this <strong><em>Reuters<\/em><\/strong> <strong><a title=\"More strange statements from Rupert.\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20100302\/media_nm\/us_nytimes_murdoch\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a><\/strong> that has Rupert Murdoch seriously insulting the Mexican people and predicting the demise of the Kindle because it was &#8220;just for reading books.&#8221; Honestly, why do we keep listening to this man?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll draw your attention to an <strong><em>InformationWeek<\/em><\/strong> <strong><a title=\"Cheaper eBook Chip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/hardware\/processors\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223101147\" target=\"_self\">report<\/a><\/strong> heralding <strong>Freescale&#8217;s<\/strong> launch of a cheaper eReader processor\u00c2\u00a0chip. They say the new chip offers a rendering performance twice as fast as the old version.<\/p>\n<p><strong>jkOnTheRun.com<\/strong> has a <strong><a title=\"jkOnTheRun and the ASUS DR-900 Launch\" href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/2010\/03\/02\/asus-ebook-dr900\/\" target=\"_self\">post<\/a><\/strong> about <strong>ASUS<\/strong> launching its<strong> DR-900<\/strong> at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. Its an eBook Reader with an iPad look. There was no mention of pricing or availability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the eBook Revolution continues its charge into 2010, we find ourselves with a varied but unexciting news day. So I&#8217;ve got a grab bag of links. First of all, thanks to Jorgen for a link to\u00c2\u00a0this Reuters story that has Rupert Murdoch seriously insulting the Mexican people and predicting the demise of the Kindle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4939\">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":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939"}],"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=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}