{"id":10539,"date":"2012-03-04T08:43:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10539"},"modified":"2012-03-04T08:43:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:43:53","slug":"stories-to-start-read-an-ebook-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10539","title":{"rendered":"Stories to start Read an eBook Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Read an eBook Week<\/strong> runs <strong>March 4-10th<\/strong>. So get out there and read an eBook. <strong><a title=\"Read an eBook Week\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebookweek.com\/\" target=\"_self\">eBookWeek<\/a><\/strong> has more.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a title=\"PayPal dictates terms.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/320563\" target=\"_self\">The Digital Journal<\/a><\/strong><\/em> offers an <strong>Op-Ed<\/strong> piece by<strong> Paul Wallis<\/strong> on <strong>PayPal&#8217;s<\/strong> sudden move toward censorship when it ordered its client eBook publisher\/distributor <strong>Smashwords <\/strong>to remove questionable fiction books from its catalog.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a title=\"Baker &amp; Taylor put Smashwords Indie titles in libraries.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2012\/03\/02\/4305995\/baker-taylor-to-offer-smashwords.html\" target=\"_self\">The Sacramento Bee<\/a><\/em><\/strong> reports on more pleasant news for <strong>Smashwords <\/strong>in which the world&#8217;s largest distributor of digital and physical books Baker &amp; Taylor announced\u00c2\u00a0that it would now offer <strong>100,000 of Smashword&#8217;s Indie eBook<\/strong> titles to the <strong>Blio<\/strong> store.<\/p>\n<div><strong><a title=\"Random increases price on eBooks for public libraries.\" href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-random-house-sharply-increases-library-e-book-prices\/\" target=\"_self\">PaidContent<\/a><\/strong> updates us on Random House&#8217;s generous decision to continue making its eBook titles available for lending at public libraries. They&#8217;re going to charge libraries as much as <strong>300%<\/strong> more to stock their virtual shelves.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read an eBook Week runs March 4-10th. So get out there and read an eBook. eBookWeek has more. The Digital Journal offers an Op-Ed piece by Paul Wallis on PayPal&#8217;s sudden move toward censorship when it ordered its client eBook publisher\/distributor Smashwords to remove questionable fiction books from its catalog. The Sacramento Bee reports on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10539\">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":[7,3,5,8,12,15,14,16,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539"}],"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=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10548,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions\/10548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}