{"id":6516,"date":"2010-08-28T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T18:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2010-08-28T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T18:01:23","slug":"skytex-gets-into-the-ebook-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6516","title":{"rendered":"Skytex Gets into the eBook Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a title=\"Skytex offers Color eBook Reader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.i-newswire.com\/skytex-announces-primer-the-99\/56431\" target=\"_self\"><strong>i-Newswire<\/strong><\/a> release announces netbook, tablet computer and media device developer, <strong>Skytex <\/strong>throwing its hat into the full-color multi-function ring dominated by <strong>iPad <\/strong>with its <strong>Primer<\/strong> 7-inch color eBook reader and portable media player that they&#8217;re selling for <strong>$99<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I know, it&#8217;s hard to imagine them offering a direct competitor to <strong>iPad <\/strong>when they&#8217;re only asking <strong>$99<\/strong> at the checkout, but it&#8217;s interesting to see new machines on the market with the potential of redefining (and ultimately re-<strong>Pricing<\/strong>) a section of the market, much the way <strong>Kobo&#8217;s $150 E Ink eReader<\/strong> forced pricing down in <strong>Kindle&#8217;s<\/strong> neck of the woods.<\/p>\n<p>Competition is a consumer&#8217;s best friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An i-Newswire release announces netbook, tablet computer and media device developer, Skytex throwing its hat into the full-color multi-function ring dominated by iPad with its Primer 7-inch color eBook reader and portable media player that they&#8217;re selling for $99. I know, it&#8217;s hard to imagine them offering a direct competitor to iPad when they&#8217;re only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6516\">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":[3,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516"}],"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=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}