{"id":5720,"date":"2010-05-25T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T21:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2010-05-25T16:11:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T21:11:37","slug":"more-about-the-150-kobo-ereader-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5720","title":{"rendered":"More about the $150 Kobo eReader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay.\u00c2\u00a0I know I&#8217;m obsessing about this thing, but come on&#8230; think of how much time we&#8217;ve talked about the pricey <strong>Kindle<\/strong>, <strong>nook<\/strong>, <strong>Sony Reader<\/strong> and <strong>iPad<\/strong>. Doesn&#8217;t an affordable E Ink eReader deserve some extra attention?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"ZDNet on $150 Kobo eReader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/mobile-gadgeteer\/hands-on-with-the-149-kobo-ereader-device\/3264\" target=\"_self\">ZDNet<\/a><\/strong> has had some hands-on time with the<strong> $150 Kobo eReader<\/strong>. Check out their post\u00c2\u00a0<strong><a title=\"ZDNet on $150 eBook eReader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/mobile-gadgeteer\/hands-on-with-the-149-kobo-ereader-device\/3264\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>. There&#8217;s a great picture gallery too.<\/p>\n<p>I think of the<strong> $150 Kobo eReader<\/strong> as the mainstream machine. The eBook Revolution has been waiting for a device that uses E Ink technology, and is priced to sell. It will open\u00c2\u00a0the door\u00c2\u00a0for the curious and hesitant adopters and if it becomes as popular as industry insiders think, the\u00c2\u00a0affordable\u00c2\u00a0machine puts pressure on Kobo&#8217;s competitors to lower their prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay.\u00c2\u00a0I know I&#8217;m obsessing about this thing, but come on&#8230; think of how much time we&#8217;ve talked about the pricey Kindle, nook, Sony Reader and iPad. Doesn&#8217;t an affordable E Ink eReader deserve some extra attention? ZDNet has had some hands-on time with the $150 Kobo eReader. Check out their post\u00c2\u00a0here. There&#8217;s a great picture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5720\">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":[3,5,8,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720"}],"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=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5732,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions\/5732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}