{"id":7966,"date":"2011-02-10T14:01:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2011-02-10T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:02:42","slug":"ebook-revolution-goes-mainstream-across-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7966","title":{"rendered":"eBook Revolution Goes Mainstream Across the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"View Quest MediaBox Media Tablet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internetretailing.net\/2011\/02\/asda-direct-pushes-uk%E2%80%99s-cheapest-e-book-reader\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>InternetRetailing<\/strong><\/a> reports on the arrival of the<strong> \u00c2\u00a352<\/strong> <a title=\"View Quest MediaBox Media Tablet\" href=\"http:\/\/direct.asda.com\/View-Quest-5in-eBook-Reader\/000505974,default,pd.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>View Quest Mediabox 5in Media Tablet<\/strong><\/a> at the <a title=\"View Quest MediaBox Media Tablet\" href=\"http:\/\/direct.asda.com\/View-Quest-5in-eBook-Reader\/000505974,default,pd.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Asda Direct website<\/strong><\/a>. That <strong>\u00c2\u00a352(US $84) <\/strong>price tag is intended to entice the British &#8216;mid-market&#8217; consumer to join the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>. At half the price of the least expensive <strong>Kindle<\/strong>, it&#8217;s likely to prove a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Our friend <a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Jorgen<\/strong><\/a> dropped by with a link to a <a title=\"Price War on the Horizon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/science-and-technology\/2011\/02\/08\/asda-join-ebook-price-war-86908-22908059\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Daily Record story<\/strong><\/a> that suggests a price war is on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBookanoid<\/strong> reviews the <strong>ViewQuest Mediabox<\/strong> <a title=\"View Quest MediaBox Media Tablet Reviewed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebookanoid.com\/2011\/02\/09\/asda-offer-the-cheapest-ereader-in-the-uk-view-quest-mediabox\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=asda-offer-the-cheapest-ereader-in-the-uk-view-quest-mediabox\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InternetRetailing reports on the arrival of the \u00c2\u00a352 View Quest Mediabox 5in Media Tablet at the Asda Direct website. That \u00c2\u00a352(US $84) price tag is intended to entice the British &#8216;mid-market&#8217; consumer to join the eBook Revolution. At half the price of the least expensive Kindle, it&#8217;s likely to prove a winner. Our friend Jorgen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7966\">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":[3,4,5,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966"}],"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=7966"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7975,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions\/7975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}