{"id":8701,"date":"2011-05-24T09:58:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8701"},"modified":"2011-05-24T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:58:34","slug":"12999-kobo-ereader-touch-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8701","title":{"rendered":"$129.99 Kobo eReader Touch Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Kobo launches new eReader Touch Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/kobo-launches-the-all-new-kobo-ereadertm-touch-edition-makes-ereading-easier-than-ever-2011-05-23-12100\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Marketwatch<\/strong><\/a> posted on <a title=\"Kobo eReader Touch Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/kobo-touch\/?ref=home%3ahome%3ahome-main%3aKobo+Touch%3a1%3aslideshow\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Kobo&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> announcement at the <a title=\"BookExpo America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookexpoamerica.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Bookexpo America<\/strong><\/a> concerning the launch of their new <strong>Kobo eReader Touch Edition<\/strong><a title=\"BookExpo America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookexpoamerica.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong><\/strong><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Priced at <strong>$129.99 USD<\/strong> and <strong>$139.99 CAD<\/strong> the device touted as the first International eReader is sure to shake up the eBook Reader market with its touch-screen, wireless features and access to Kobo&#8217;s massive catalog of eBook titles.<\/p>\n<p>Of note in the post: the arrival of this new <strong>Kobo eReader<\/strong> will lower the price of the first generation <strong>Kobo WiFi<\/strong> <strong>eReader <\/strong>to <strong>$99.99 USD<\/strong> and <strong>$109 CAD<\/strong>. That marks the first time one of the big competitors in the <strong>E Ink eReader<\/strong> market has broken the <strong>$100 mark<\/strong> (without conditions or coupons on the sale!).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s going to cause some ripples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marketwatch posted on Kobo&#8217;s announcement at the Bookexpo America concerning the launch of their new Kobo eReader Touch Edition.\u00c2\u00a0 Priced at $129.99 USD and $139.99 CAD the device touted as the first International eReader is sure to shake up the eBook Reader market with its touch-screen, wireless features and access to Kobo&#8217;s massive catalog of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8701\">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":[3,4,5,8,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8701"}],"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=8701"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8720,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8701\/revisions\/8720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}