{"id":215,"date":"2009-10-16T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-10-16T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T21:42:08","slug":"bevy-of-e-readers-to-hit-the-market-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/2009\/10\/bevy-of-e-readers-to-hit-the-market-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Bevy of e-readers to hit the market in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been obvious for a while that the Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, and Kindle 2 would eventually face <a title=\"2010 - the year for e-readers?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/172040\/get_ready_for_the_ereader_rumble_of_2010.html?tk=rel_news\" target=\"_blank\">stiff competition<\/a>, both in terms of hardware platform and software\/services design and availability. The competition, however, has taken a while to materialize, in part because it&#8217;s hard to get a bunch of competitors to decide on e-book formats, DRM, sales questions, etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>So, the news today about the <a title=\"Google Editions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/173789\/google_editions_embraces_universal_ebook_format.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google Editions<\/a> e-book store is big because its presence in the market addresses some of the fundamental content availability questions regarding e-readers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just excited that there will be a legitimate competitor to Amazon in the e-book space, although we&#8217;ll see whether this all works out well for consumers&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been obvious for a while that the Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, and Kindle 2 would eventually face stiff competition, both in terms of hardware platform and software\/services design and availability. The competition, however, has taken a while to materialize, in part because it&#8217;s hard to get a bunch of competitors to decide on e-book formats, DRM, sales questions, etc., etc. So, the news today about the Google Editions e-book store is big because its presence in the market addresses&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}