{"id":135295,"date":"2012-08-13T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2012\/08\/13\/barnes-noble-slashes-prices-of-nook-tablet\/"},"modified":"2012-08-13T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T22:19:00","slug":"barnes-noble-slashes-prices-of-nook-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/13\/barnes-noble-slashes-prices-of-nook-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes &#038; Noble slashes prices of Nook tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>E-book manufacturers Barnes &amp; Noble slashed prices of three models of its Nook e-reader and tablet devices on Sunday. Nook tablet with 16 GB of memory is priced at USD 199 from USD 249.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, Nook has helped Barnes &amp; Noble to capture the US e-books market by 27 percent. Amazon is the market leader with about 60 percent of e-book and e-reader sales.<\/p>\n<p>The largest US bookstore chain also shaved $20 off its 8 GB version of the tablet to $179. Barnes &amp; Noble lowered the price of its Nook Color by $20, bringing it to $149, the latest reduction for that model. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the popularity of the Nook devices, Barnes &amp; Noble has had to reduce the price of various versions on a number of occasions to compete with Amazon, which is believed to be preparing to launch a new version of its Kindle Fire tablet. The earlier price reductions cut into Barnes &amp; Noble\u2019s earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-book manufacturers Barnes &amp; Noble slashed prices of three models of its Nook e-reader and tablet devices on Sunday. Nook tablet with 16 GB of memory is priced at USD 199 from USD 249. Reportedly, Nook has helped Barnes &amp; Noble to capture the US e-books market by 27 percent. Amazon is the market leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}