{"id":11215,"date":"2012-06-26T09:43:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T14:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11215"},"modified":"2012-06-26T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T14:43:21","slug":"digital-publishing-news-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11215","title":{"rendered":"Digital Publishing News Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Student eBook Use Accelerating\" href=\"http:\/\/www.overdrive.com\/News\/Student-eBook-Use-Accelerating-in-Schools\" target=\"_self\">OverDrive<\/a> <\/strong>says that student adoption of eBooks is on the rise at schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Amazon wants to go retail.\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/electronic-readers\/leaked-documents-fuel-amazons-retail-store-ambitions\/\" target=\"_self\">GoodeReader<\/a><\/strong> says <strong>Amazon <\/strong>has its sights set on creating its own retail stores.<\/p>\n<p>According to<strong><em> <a title=\"Apple and eBook pirates claim they were doing it for our own good.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-tech\/post\/doj-vs-apple-e-book-publishers-dispute-heats-up\/2012\/06\/25\/gJQA42vW1V_blog.html\" target=\"_self\">the Washtington Post<\/a>,<\/em><\/strong> <strong>Apple <\/strong>and its gang of price-fixing publishers have taken the position in the <strong>DOJ<\/strong> anti-trust lawsuit that they were just forcing the price of <strong>eBooks <\/strong>up so that they could maintain a fair marketplace and to keep <strong>Amazon <\/strong>from eventually forcing the price up. (Weird logic there&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>And the <strong><a title=\"Paper Industry takes hit from eBooks.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/arts\/story\/2012\/06\/25\/paper-industry-weak.html\" target=\"_self\">CBC<\/a><\/strong> says the paper industry is taking a hit as people adopt electronic (and therefore paperless) media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OverDrive says that student adoption of eBooks is on the rise at schools. GoodeReader says Amazon has its sights set on creating its own retail stores. According to the Washtington Post, Apple and its gang of price-fixing publishers have taken the position in the DOJ anti-trust lawsuit that they were just forcing the price of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11215\">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":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215"}],"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=11215"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11225,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215\/revisions\/11225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}