{"id":7048,"date":"2010-10-28T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2010-10-28T09:42:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T14:42:19","slug":"kobo-ereader-hits-99-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7048","title":{"rendered":"Kobo eReader Hits $99 Mark!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew this would happen before Christmas! <a title=\"Kobo eReader $99!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\/15\/archives\/2010\/10\/borders_drop_prices_of_kobo_ereader_aluratek_libre_and_velocity_micro_cruz_reader.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>UberGizmo<\/strong><\/a> has the story about <strong>Borders <\/strong>dropping the price of the <strong>Kobo eReader<\/strong> to <strong>$99.99<\/strong> in a lead-up to the holiday season. (The sale is marked with an October 31 closing date, but it&#8217;s also rumored to have a Nov. 15 cut-off date. Regardless, I wouldn&#8217;t waste any time taking advantage of the offer.) Check out the Borders offer <a title=\"Kobo eReader $99!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.borders.com\/online\/store\/MediaView_koboereader\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like they&#8217;ve extended the sale to their entire suite of eBook Readers: <a title=\"Velocity Micro Cruz Reader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.borders.com\/online\/store\/MediaView_cruz-reader\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Velocity Micro Cruz Reader for $169.99<\/strong><\/a> and the <a title=\"Velocity Micro Cruz Tablet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.borders.com\/online\/store\/MediaView_cruz-tablet\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Velocity Micro Cruz Tablet at $299.99<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If these prices have dropped now, imagine the wrangling that&#8217;s going to go on as the holiday shopping season draws near. Some industry insiders suggest we might see a <strong>$79<\/strong> eBook Reader before the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew this would happen before Christmas! UberGizmo has the story about Borders dropping the price of the Kobo eReader to $99.99 in a lead-up to the holiday season. (The sale is marked with an October 31 closing date, but it&#8217;s also rumored to have a Nov. 15 cut-off date. Regardless, I wouldn&#8217;t waste any &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7048\">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\/7048"}],"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=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7060,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/7060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}