{"id":149338,"date":"2010-01-07T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/07\/spring-designs-alex-e-reader-gets-february-22-release-date-399-price\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T15:01:44","slug":"spring-design%e2%80%99s-alex-e-reader-gets-february-22-release-date-399-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/149338","title":{"rendered":"Spring Design\u2019s Alex e-reader gets February 22 release date, $399 price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualpressoffice.com\/publicsiteContentFileAccess?fileContentId=228842&amp;fromOtherPageToDisableHistory=Y&amp;menuName=News&amp;sId=53&amp;sInfo=Y\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Spring Design's Alex e-reader gets February 22 release date, $399 price\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/spring-design-alex-reader-0050-600.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>If you like us were concerned that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/springdesign,alex\">Spring Design Alex<\/a> e-reader would get mired down in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/01\/spring-design-denied-injunction-on-sales-of-barnes-and-noble-nook\/\">legal battles<\/a> and never find its way into the caressing hands of book lovers everywhere, you&#8217;re not alone. Thankfully that doesn&#8217;t seem to be the case, with the company indicating the dual-screen uberbook will be shipping toward the end of next month; February 22 to be precise. That&#8217;s the good news. The bad? A price of $399, putting it nearly $150 higher than its closest competition at this point, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/nook\">Nook<\/a>, and while our brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/05\/spring-design-alex-hands-on\/\">hands-on time with the device<\/a> left us with a much better impression than Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s device did when we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/07\/barnes-and-noble-nook-review\/\">got to play with it<\/a>, we&#8217;re not sure just how many people are going to be willing to pay <em>that<\/em> much of a premium for it. What say you?<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/07\/spring-designs-alex-e-reader-gets-february-22-release-date-39\/\">Spring Design&#8217;s Alex e-reader gets February 22 release date, $399 price<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:27:00 EST.  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