{"id":5440,"date":"2010-04-19T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2010-04-19T09:39:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T14:39:25","slug":"whats-the-future-hold-for-dedecated-ebook-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5440","title":{"rendered":"What Does the Future Hold for Dedicated eBook Reading Devices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <strong><a title=\"E Ink or iPAD?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebookmagazine.co.uk\/after-the-ipad-what-future-for-dedicated-ebook-readers\/2010628\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to a post at <strong><em>eBookmagazine<\/em><\/strong> that talks about the future of dedicated eBook Readers (like Kindle, Sony Reader, nook etc.) in a world of multi-function iPads and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, author Martin Hoscik predicts that despite their practical natures,\u00c2\u00a0 the sole purpose devices have\u00c2\u00a0a difficult future in\u00c2\u00a0 a multi-tasking world.<\/p>\n<p>I think the key is price. Rather than compete with iPad and turn eBook readers into\u00c2\u00a0more expensive\u00c2\u00a0televisions and music players, make them CHEAPER and sell them everywhere. The high price of (most) E Ink Readers is the greatest threat to their existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a post at eBookmagazine that talks about the future of dedicated eBook Readers (like Kindle, Sony Reader, nook etc.) in a world of multi-function iPads and tablets. In the article, author Martin Hoscik predicts that despite their practical natures,\u00c2\u00a0 the sole purpose devices have\u00c2\u00a0a difficult future in\u00c2\u00a0 a multi-tasking world. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5440\">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":[3,5,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440"}],"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=5440"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5451,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions\/5451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}