{"id":10712,"date":"2012-03-27T09:36:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10712"},"modified":"2012-03-27T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:36:54","slug":"whats-a-fair-price-for-an-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10712","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a fair price for an eBook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"eBook prices continue to climb.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/living\/index.ssf\/2012\/03\/whats_a_digital_book_worth_its.html\" target=\"_self\">AL.com<\/a><\/strong> continues the discussion on the price of eBooks, citing a &#8216;creep&#8217; skyward on bestsellers and other popular authors. I think we&#8217;ll see some pricing changes come after the <strong>US Justice Department <\/strong>completes its anti-trust (price-fixing) lawsuit against <strong>Apple <\/strong>and<strong> five large New York publishers <\/strong><span>(<\/span><strong>Hachette Book Group<\/strong><span>, <\/span><strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong><span>,<\/span><strong>MacMillan<\/strong><span>, <\/span><strong>Penguin<\/strong><span>, and <\/span><strong>Harper Collins<\/strong><span>)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>If you remember, previous to <strong>Apple <\/strong>and co-conspirator&#8217;s push for the adoption of the expensive Agency Model, <strong>Amazon <\/strong>had discovered that consumers were willing to pay <strong>$9.99 per title<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, since the adoption of the\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Agency Model<\/strong> (where publishers set their own high prices on eBooks) there has been an explosion in <strong>eBook Piracy<\/strong> and <strong>file-sharing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL.com continues the discussion on the price of eBooks, citing a &#8216;creep&#8217; skyward on bestsellers and other popular authors. I think we&#8217;ll see some pricing changes come after the US Justice Department completes its anti-trust (price-fixing) lawsuit against Apple and five large New York publishers (Hachette Book Group, Simon &amp; Schuster,MacMillan, Penguin, and Harper Collins). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10712\">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":[7,3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712"}],"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=10712"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10720,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712\/revisions\/10720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}