{"id":11176,"date":"2012-06-19T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11176"},"modified":"2012-06-19T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:25:41","slug":"ebooks-outsell-hard-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11176","title":{"rendered":"eBooks outsell hard covers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"eBooks outsell hard covers!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/networking\/its-the-end-of-books-as-you-knew-them-e-books-out-sell-hardbound-for-the-1st-time\/2505\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Zdnet<\/strong><\/a> reports that <strong>The Association of American Publishers<\/strong> says adult <strong>eBook <\/strong>sales are up <strong>$282.3-million<\/strong> in <strong>2012 <\/strong>and adult hard cover sales fell short at <strong>$229.6 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a first for the publishing industry and suggests good times are ahead for the<strong> eBook Revolution<\/strong>. The reason for the switch? The <strong>AAP <\/strong>suggests it&#8217;s the trade and mass-market paperback audience shifting to digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zdnet reports that The Association of American Publishers says adult eBook sales are up $282.3-million in 2012 and adult hard cover sales fell short at $229.6 million. This is a first for the publishing industry and suggests good times are ahead for the eBook Revolution. The reason for the switch? The AAP suggests it&#8217;s the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11176\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176"}],"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=11176"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11186,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions\/11186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}