{"id":6352,"date":"2010-08-12T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6352"},"modified":"2010-08-12T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:25:36","slug":"que-proreader-fades-into-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6352","title":{"rendered":"Que ProReader Fades into the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ITProPortal<\/strong> posted on the sad <strong><a title=\"Que ProReader is no more...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itproportal.com\/portal\/news\/article\/2010\/8\/11\/plastic-logic-zaps-que-e-reader-device\/#ixzz0wPMfhwat\" target=\"_self\">news<\/a><\/strong> about UK-based <strong>Plastic Logic<\/strong> confirming its plan to abandon the <strong>Que ProReader<\/strong>, a beautiful device that was headed for the office and boardroom. Read Plastic Logic&#8217;s press release <strong><a title=\"Plastic Logic Que ProReader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticlogic.com\/news\/pr_2g_aug102010.php\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sad day for those of us lusting after its sleek lines. After months of delays the <strong><a title=\"Is the ProReader Headed to Extinction?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6008\" target=\"_self\">rumor mill<\/a><\/strong> was churning about the future of this pricey but &#8216;oh so sexy&#8217; device.<\/p>\n<p>I think its large format E Ink screen and high price\u00c2\u00a0pushed it into unexpected competition with the full-color multi-format <strong>iPad<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the innovators who dreamed of the device that used plastic electronics will not abandon their foray into eBook Readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITProPortal posted on the sad news about UK-based Plastic Logic confirming its plan to abandon the Que ProReader, a beautiful device that was headed for the office and boardroom. Read Plastic Logic&#8217;s press release here. It&#8217;s a sad day for those of us lusting after its sleek lines. After months of delays the rumor mill &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6352\">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":[3,5,8,12,15,14,16,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352"}],"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=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6365,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}