{"id":12568,"date":"2013-01-21T15:51:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12568"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:51:44","slug":"amazon-to-rent-ebooks-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12568","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to rent eBooks. Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Amazon trying eBook rentals...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geeky-gadgets.com\/amazon-testing-book-rentals-for-kindle-books-20-01-2013\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>GeekyGadgets<\/strong><\/a> offers a story that frustrates the hell out of me. <strong>Amazon <\/strong>is testing out a book rental option for its <strong>Kindle<\/strong> eBook reader.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay. So, what happened to all that talk about eBook prices coming down once <strong>Apple <\/strong>and <strong>co-conspirators<\/strong> paid the piper for their price-fixing scheme?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, <strong>Amazon <\/strong>is trying to find new tricks to keep eBook sale prices higher than they should be, and in the process making it look way too complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Just sell eBooks, for God&#8217;s sake! <strong>Greedy gimmicks<\/strong> slow down the technology&#8217;s mainstream adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeekyGadgets offers a story that frustrates the hell out of me. Amazon is testing out a book rental option for its Kindle eBook reader.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay. So, what happened to all that talk about eBook prices coming down once Apple and co-conspirators paid the piper for their price-fixing scheme? Apparently, Amazon is trying to find new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12568\">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":[3,4,5,8,6,15,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568"}],"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=12568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12574,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions\/12574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}