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January 7th, 2010, 14:40
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If you like us were concerned that the Spring Design Alex (http://www.engadget.com/tag/springdesign,alex) e-reader would get mired down in legal battles (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/spring-design-denied-injunction-on-sales-of-barnes-and-noble-nook/) and never find its way into the caressing hands of book lovers everywhere, you're not alone. Thankfully that doesn'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's the good news. The bad? A price of $399, putting it nearly $150 higher than its closest competition at this point, the Nook (http://www.engadget.com/tag/nook), and while our brief hands-on time with the device (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/spring-design-alex-hands-on/) left us with a much better impression than Barnes & Noble's device did when we got to play with it (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/barnes-and-noble-nook-review/), we're not sure just how many people are going to be willing to pay that much of a premium for it. What say you?
Spring Design's Alex e-reader gets February 22 release date, $399 price (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/spring-designs-alex-e-reader-gets-february-22-release-date-39/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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If you like us were concerned that the Spring Design Alex (http://www.engadget.com/tag/springdesign,alex) e-reader would get mired down in legal battles (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/spring-design-denied-injunction-on-sales-of-barnes-and-noble-nook/) and never find its way into the caressing hands of book lovers everywhere, you're not alone. Thankfully that doesn'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's the good news. The bad? A price of $399, putting it nearly $150 higher than its closest competition at this point, the Nook (http://www.engadget.com/tag/nook), and while our brief hands-on time with the device (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/spring-design-alex-hands-on/) left us with a much better impression than Barnes & Noble's device did when we got to play with it (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/barnes-and-noble-nook-review/), we're not sure just how many people are going to be willing to pay that much of a premium for it. What say you?
Spring Design's Alex e-reader gets February 22 release date, $399 price (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/spring-designs-alex-e-reader-gets-february-22-release-date-39/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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