{"id":10857,"date":"2012-04-18T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10857"},"modified":"2012-04-18T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:42:34","slug":"are-ebook-wars-ahead-maybe-but-there-will-be-affordable-ebooks-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10857","title":{"rendered":"Are eBook Wars Ahead? Maybe but there will be affordable eBooks too."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"eBook Wars in the Future.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/04\/the-coming-book-wars-apple-vs-amazon-vs-google-vs-the-us\/256000\/\" target=\"_self\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/strong> predicts the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> may be headed toward a <strong>Book War<\/strong> as a result of the<strong> U.S. Justice Department&#8217;s <\/strong>anti-trust lawsuit against\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Apple <\/strong>and its price-fixing co-conspirators.<\/p>\n<p>While it may get rough for a time it is only going to get better for the consumer. Even with the dirty dealings and artificially high prices, the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> has been and continues to be a global phenomenon. We&#8217;re bound to see some real fireworks now as the mainstream is finally offered <em>fair <\/em>and\u00c2\u00a0affordable eBooks and the devices to read them on.<\/p>\n<p>Is it good for readers?<strong> You bet.<\/strong> Just ask anyone who has joined the revolution and you&#8217;ll find another happy consumer who is reading more than ever before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic predicts the eBook Revolution may be headed toward a Book War as a result of the U.S. Justice Department&#8217;s anti-trust lawsuit against\u00c2\u00a0Apple and its price-fixing co-conspirators. While it may get rough for a time it is only going to get better for the consumer. Even with the dirty dealings and artificially high prices, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10857\">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":[7,3,4,5,8,6,12,15,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857"}],"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=10857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10862,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions\/10862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}