{"id":2679,"date":"2009-08-05T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T20:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2009-08-05T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T20:55:48","slug":"sony-runs-at-amazons-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/05\/sony-runs-at-amazons-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony runs at Amazon&#8217;s Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2682\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/books-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"books\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/books-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/books.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Sony has <a title=\"unveiled\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219000231\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled <\/a>two new, reduced-price e-reader devices, aimed at making a dent in marketplace grip held by Amazon&#8217;s Kindle.\u00a0 College of Communication Pr0fessor <a title=\"Hyun-Yeul Lee\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/hyun_lee.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Hyun-Yeul Lee<\/a>, a communications technology expert, says Sony&#8217;s move speaks to how consumers are catching on and transitioning from paper-based reading to digital reading.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It is natural that as the market grows for these e-readers, the user interface, technology for reading and access, pricing from a consumer point of view, and content availability will improve.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Hyun-Yeul Lee, 617-353-5974, <a href=\"mailto:hyun@bu.edu\">hyun@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has unveiled two new, reduced-price e-reader devices, aimed at making a dent in marketplace grip held by Amazon&#8217;s Kindle.\u00a0 College of Communication Pr0fessor Hyun-Yeul Lee, a communications technology expert, says Sony&#8217;s move speaks to how consumers are catching on and transitioning from paper-based reading to digital reading. &#8220;It is natural that as the market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1559,1558,1560,1557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}