{"id":12655,"date":"2013-02-03T18:55:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12655"},"modified":"2013-02-03T18:55:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:55:50","slug":"publisher-fears-undermine-public-library-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12655","title":{"rendered":"Publisher fears undermine public library system."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Publishers fear of eBooks threatens libraries.\" href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/opinion\/2020268612_alexalbenopedlibrariesxml.html?cmpid=2628\" target=\"_self\"><strong>The Seattle Times<\/strong><\/a> op-ed by <strong>Alex Alben<\/strong> tells it like it is. Traditional publishers&#8217; fear of digital books is undermining the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> and seriously hampering public libraries&#8217; ability to make the transition to the future or reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times op-ed by Alex Alben tells it like it is. Traditional publishers&#8217; fear of digital books is undermining the eBook Revolution and seriously hampering public libraries&#8217; ability to make the transition to the future or reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,5,8,6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655"}],"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=12655"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12661,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655\/revisions\/12661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}