{"id":140334,"date":"2010-01-05T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=53445"},"modified":"2010-01-05T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:00:24","slug":"alex-e-reader-gains-a-million-books-thanks-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/140334","title":{"rendered":"Alex e-Reader Gains a Million Books Thanks to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lawsuits aside<\/a>, quite a few folks are interested in the Alex Reader from Spring Design<\/a>. The device uses a 6″ eInk display for content, but also has a 3.5″ secondary color display that runs Google Android. (Yes, that sounds familiar<\/a>.) Aside from the innovative hardware, the device is only as good as its content, right? Up to now I hadn’t heard of any specific content deals worked out, but CES is upon us and that changes things. Spring Design<\/a> today announced a deal with Google that puts over 1 million titles in Google Books<\/a> on the Alex.<\/p>\n

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“Our agreement and strategic alliance with Google opens the doors to more readers around the world,” said Dr. Priscilla Lu, CEO of Spring Design.\u00a0 “We are excited to be part of Google’s initiative to digitize and deliver the world’s books and look forward to the markets and opportunities these efforts will open up for readers as well as independent authors.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While this might not be the content provider some would hope for, it’s a definite start. And the device does support the EPUB format, so many more doors could open very soon for the Alex. How about it — does this news generate any more excitement for the Alex, or are you content to read Google Books on other devices?<\/p>\n

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Lawsuits aside, quite a few folks are interested in the Alex Reader from Spring Design. The device uses a 6″ eInk display for content, but also has a 3.5″ secondary color display that runs Google Android. (Yes, that sounds familiar.) Aside from the innovative hardware, the device is only as good as its content, right? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}