{"id":5958,"date":"2010-06-21T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5958"},"modified":"2010-06-21T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:00:41","slug":"the-barnes-and-noble-nook-for-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5958","title":{"rendered":"The Barnes and Noble nook for $149"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like <strong>Barnes and Noble<\/strong> is making another exciting move marking the price of their <strong>nook<\/strong> down to <strong><a title=\"nook now $149\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/nook\/index.asp\" target=\"_self\">$149<\/a><\/strong> while offering an optional <strong>$199 3G model<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This will absolutely heat things up this summer, and I can&#8217;t help but think this is the work of <strong><a title=\"$150 Kobo the Game Changer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5159\" target=\"_self\">Kobo&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0$150 E Ink eReader<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>$149<\/strong> nook doesn&#8217;t just beat Kobo&#8217;s price by a buck, it also comes with <strong>WiFi<\/strong>,\u00c2\u00a0a clear challenge to Kobo&#8217;s USB connectivity. (Most readers don&#8217;t care, but the convenience of WiFi might be a deal maker.)<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, B&amp;N is dropping the price of the nook <strong>3G<\/strong> with <strong>WiFi<\/strong> from <strong>$259<\/strong> to <strong>$199<\/strong>. (Connects anywhere.)<\/p>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s a shot across Amazon&#8217;s bow as the smart eBook Reading Device makers opt out of a head-to-head competition with iPad&#8217;s multi-function and go for getting eBook Readers into the mainstream&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>Can the $99 eBook Reader be far behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Barnes and Noble is making another exciting move marking the price of their nook down to $149 while offering an optional $199 3G model. This will absolutely heat things up this summer, and I can&#8217;t help but think this is the work of Kobo&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0$150 E Ink eReader. The $149 nook doesn&#8217;t just beat &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5958\">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":[3,5,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958"}],"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=5958"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5964,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}