{"id":12528,"date":"2013-01-15T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T16:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12528"},"modified":"2013-01-15T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T16:56:48","slug":"days-of-high-priced-ebooks-are-numbered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12528","title":{"rendered":"Days of high-priced eBooks are numbered."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"eBook prices dropping.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jeremygreenfield\/2013\/01\/14\/are-the-days-of-the-14-99-ebook-numbered\/\" target=\"_self\">Forbes<\/a><\/strong> says that expensive eBooks will soon be a thing of the past. We&#8217;ll hang that development on the <strong>Department of Justice&#8217;s<\/strong> price-fixing lawsuit against <strong>Apple <\/strong>and <strong>co-conspirators<\/strong> being settled, and on the fact that readers are not stupid. <strong>($14.99<\/strong> for an <strong>eBook<\/strong>&#8230;<strong>Get Real!<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>The shift in eBook pricing toward a more sane and sustainable model bodes well for a revolution that has been straining at the leash to explode across the main stream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes says that expensive eBooks will soon be a thing of the past. We&#8217;ll hang that development on the Department of Justice&#8217;s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple and co-conspirators being settled, and on the fact that readers are not stupid. ($14.99 for an eBook&#8230;Get Real!) The shift in eBook pricing toward a more sane and sustainable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12528\">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":[7,3,4,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528"}],"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=12528"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12535,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528\/revisions\/12535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}