{"id":1220,"date":"2009-03-06T09:36:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2009-03-06T09:36:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:36:01","slug":"barnes-and-noble-stops-drinking-decaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Barnes and Noble Stops Drinking DeCaf&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right. They&#8217;re waking up over at Barnes and Noble. I hate to say I told you so, but Dec. 30, I kind of inferred it so, in my mildly catty way, that the old flagship Barnes and Noble was missing the <a title=\"Bad time to close an eBook Store\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=91\" target=\"_self\">boat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read this <a title=\"Dinosaur buys Spaceship\" href=\"http:\/\/news.digitaltrends.com\/news-article\/19403\/barnes-noble-eyes-ebook-market-with-fictionwise-buy\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a>. <a title=\"Bringing up the rear...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Barnes and Noble<\/strong><\/a> has acquired Fictionwise (<em><strong>15.7 million cash<\/strong><\/em>) in an effort to &#8216;ramp up&#8217; their own electronic book store this year. (In place of &#8216;ramp up&#8217; I&#8217;d put, &#8216;recreate because we were sadly lacking in foresight and imagination&#8217;&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;d I tell you about the arrogance of the status quo? (Now I&#8217;m sounding catty, <em>yah<\/em>?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right. They&#8217;re waking up over at Barnes and Noble. I hate to say I told you so, but Dec. 30, I kind of inferred it so, in my mildly catty way, that the old flagship Barnes and Noble was missing the boat. Read this story. Barnes and Noble has acquired Fictionwise (15.7 million cash) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1220\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220"}],"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=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}