{"id":10141,"date":"2012-01-02T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T20:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10141"},"modified":"2012-01-02T15:05:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T20:05:35","slug":"amazon-cools-off-first-mainstream-ebook-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10141","title":{"rendered":"Amazon cools off first mainstream eBook Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Amazon throws cold water on hot market.\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/electronic-readers\/surge-in-amazon-library-ebook-lending\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> has an update on <strong>Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Owners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Lending Library<\/strong> program launched some months ago, and in full swing in time for the holiday buying season.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how much the participating authors profit from what could be called a spoiler of the first mainstream Christmas for the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Indie authors who spoke to <strong>eBook Rumors<\/strong> said that their sales flattened out at Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Store when they expected to see them skyrocket. It is suspected that the influx of FREELY loaned eBooks threw cold water on a market that was set to explode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoodeReader has an update on Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Owners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Lending Library program launched some months ago, and in full swing in time for the holiday buying season. We&#8217;ll see how much the participating authors profit from what could be called a spoiler of the first mainstream Christmas for the eBook Revolution. Indie authors who spoke to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10141\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10141"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10147,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions\/10147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}