{"id":5817,"date":"2010-06-03T15:09:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T20:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5817"},"modified":"2010-06-03T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T20:09:54","slug":"borders-announces-a-11999-ebook-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5817","title":{"rendered":"Borders Announces a $119.99 eBook Reader."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <strong><a title=\"$119.99 eBook Reader from Borders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/bordersr-and-aluratek-partner-on-libre-ebook-reader-pro-first-119-device-featuring-link-to-borders-ebook-store-available-for-pre-order-at-borderscom-2010-06-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to<strong> <\/strong><a title=\"$199.99 eBook Reader from Borders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/bordersr-and-aluratek-partner-on-libre-ebook-reader-pro-first-119-device-featuring-link-to-borders-ebook-store-available-for-pre-order-at-borderscom-2010-06-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp\" target=\"_self\"><strong>MarketWatch<\/strong><\/a> where you&#8217;ll find a <strong>Borders&#8217;<\/strong> press release announcing the book giant&#8217;s plans to dive into the<strong> eBook Revolution<\/strong>. Not only are they forging ahead with links to Kobo&#8217;s eBook Store and low-priced eReader, Borders is planning to release a <strong>$119.99 eBook Reader<\/strong> to fit into\u00c2\u00a0a &#8220;good, better, best&#8221; suite of hand-held devices designed and priced to each reader&#8217;s taste.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>$119.99<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Aluratek\u00c2\u00a0Libre eBook Reader<\/strong> uses <strong>Reflect Light LCD<\/strong> technology in its 5-inch black and white screen that allows super-fast page turns without backlighting. I&#8217;m interested to see this technology in action because it brags about being soft-on-the eyes without E Ink&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0reported flickers and flashes during page transitions.<\/p>\n<p>That &#8220;good, better, best&#8221; selection is just the thing we need to throw the eBook Revolution into high gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to MarketWatch where you&#8217;ll find a Borders&#8217; press release announcing the book giant&#8217;s plans to dive into the eBook Revolution. Not only are they forging ahead with links to Kobo&#8217;s eBook Store and low-priced eReader, Borders is planning to release a $119.99 eBook Reader to fit into\u00c2\u00a0a &#8220;good, better, best&#8221; suite of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5817\">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":[3,4,5,8,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817"}],"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=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5828,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}