{"id":10944,"date":"2012-05-04T11:34:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10944"},"modified":"2012-05-04T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:34:48","slug":"digital-publishing-updates-may-4-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10944","title":{"rendered":"Digital Publishing Updates May 4, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Publishers defend high prices - unsuccessfully.\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/05\/03\/it-doesnt-matter-what-e-books-cost-to-make\/\" target=\"_self\">Gigaom<\/a><\/strong> takes up the eBook pricing debate as publishers attempt to justify their desire to keep the prices high.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Profit margins have to change to suit the changing market.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mobiledia.com\/news\/141896.html\" target=\"_self\">Mobiledia<\/a> <\/strong>offers a lame justification for publishers over-charging.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Can eBooks Succeed without Amazon?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/mediashift\/2012\/05\/can-e-books-succeed-without-amazon124.html\" target=\"_self\">MediaShift<\/a><\/strong> wonders if eBooks can succeed without <strong>Amazon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"DRM Good for the eBook Revolution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/may\/03\/death-of-drm-good-news?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_self\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong> has an article by<strong> Cory Doctorow<\/strong> suggesting the death of <strong>digital rights management (DRM)<\/strong> would be a win-win scenario for readers, writers and publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigaom takes up the eBook pricing debate as publishers attempt to justify their desire to keep the prices high. Mobiledia offers a lame justification for publishers over-charging. MediaShift wonders if eBooks can succeed without Amazon. The Guardian has an article by Cory Doctorow suggesting the death of digital rights management (DRM) would be a win-win &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10944\">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":[7,3,11,4,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944"}],"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=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10954,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions\/10954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}