{"id":8721,"date":"2011-05-25T08:40:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T13:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2011-05-25T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T13:40:57","slug":"the-new-barnes-and-noble-nook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8721","title":{"rendered":"The new Barnes and Noble Nook Simple Touch Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The new Nook Touch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\/2011\/05\/the-all-new-nook\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Ubergizmo<\/strong><\/a> has a post with pictures on the release of the new <a title=\"B&amp;N Nook Simple Touch Reader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/nook\/index.asp?PID=35699\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Barnes &amp; Noble <\/strong><strong>Nook <\/strong><strong>Simple Touch Reader<\/strong><\/a>. What I like about this device is it&#8217;s hitting the market with a <strong>$139<\/strong> price tag, a realistic start that hits the price mark of Amazon&#8217;s lowest priced ad-free <strong>Kindle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It boasts a sleek new look, bearing a <strong>6-inch<\/strong> improved <strong>E Ink touch-screen display<\/strong>. With a <strong>2-month battery<\/strong>, it&#8217;s a bold statement to the other eBook market leaders. With the Monday launch of the new <strong>$129 Kobo eReader Touch Edition<\/strong>, I think we&#8217;re seeing another escalation in the battle for supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone say &#8220;<strong>Price War<\/strong>?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubergizmo has a post with pictures on the release of the new Barnes &amp; Noble Nook Simple Touch Reader. What I like about this device is it&#8217;s hitting the market with a $139 price tag, a realistic start that hits the price mark of Amazon&#8217;s lowest priced ad-free Kindle. It boasts a sleek new look, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8721\">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":[3,4,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721"}],"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=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8728,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions\/8728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}