{"id":11088,"date":"2012-05-31T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11088"},"modified":"2012-05-31T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:20:34","slug":"stephen-king-plans-fan-manipulation-as-part-of-joyland-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11088","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King plans fan manipulation as part of Joyland release!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"King sells out his loyal readers and backs publisher resistance to eBooks.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-18278719\" target=\"_self\">BBC News<\/a><\/strong> reports on <strong>Stephen King&#8217;s<\/strong> next novel being a major manipulation of his loyal readers where his book <strong><em>Joyland<\/em><\/strong> will be released in paper form only at first saying: &#8220;<span>we&#8217;re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being.&#8221; He gives his reason as having to do with loving paper books when he was a kid. (I wonder if he liked the rising price of paper books when he was a kid, too.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This plan will force his fans to purchase the paper version or go fish. It&#8217;s not nice to fool with loyal readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Nostalgia, cash grab or is he toadying up to the publishers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News reports on Stephen King&#8217;s next novel being a major manipulation of his loyal readers where his book Joyland will be released in paper form only at first saying: &#8220;we&#8217;re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being.&#8221; He gives his reason as having to do with loving paper books &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11088\">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":[3,4,5,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088"}],"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=11088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11093,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions\/11093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}