{"id":8524,"date":"2011-04-26T11:31:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2011-04-26T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:31:21","slug":"battle-heats-up-on-the-ebook-technology-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8524","title":{"rendered":"Battle Heats up on the eBook Technology Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> promises an exciting year on the multimedia, full-color tablet front as <strong>Sony <\/strong>announces its plans to bring not <em>one <\/em>but <em><strong>two <\/strong><\/em>new tablet-devices to compete in the market that is currently being dominated by <strong>Apple iPad<\/strong>. Read the full story at <a title=\"Sony enters tablet battle.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/13191269\" target=\"_self\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Added to the arrival of <strong>Rearch In Motion&#8217;s <a title=\"RIM's PlayBook\" href=\"http:\/\/us.blackberry.com\/playbook-tablet\/\" target=\"_self\">PlayBook<\/a><\/strong> and the many other tablets expected in <strong>2011<\/strong>, this promises to turn into a buying and selling frenzy that will draw eBooks into the broader battle for multimedia market dominance.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see some interesting clashes similar to the price and availability competitions that featured in the <strong>E Ink eBook Reader<\/strong> market in <strong>2010<\/strong>. Big price drops will ignite an explosion of Apps and digital content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eBook Revolution promises an exciting year on the multimedia, full-color tablet front as Sony announces its plans to bring not one but two new tablet-devices to compete in the market that is currently being dominated by Apple iPad. Read the full story at BBC. Added to the arrival of Rearch In Motion&#8217;s PlayBook and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8524\">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":[7,3,4,5,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524"}],"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=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}