{"id":12767,"date":"2013-02-22T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12767"},"modified":"2013-02-22T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:30:29","slug":"digital-publishing-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12767","title":{"rendered":"Digital Publishing Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Something new from Apple.\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-57570575-37\/apple-may-be-working-on-new-e-book-features-for-ios\/\" target=\"_self\">CNet<\/a><\/strong> hints that <strong>Apple <\/strong>may be working on a new eBook feature after filing a patent for a &#8220;floating toolbar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"EC takes France and Luxembourg to task.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/ec-confirms-crackdown-e-book-vat.html\" target=\"_self\">The Bookseller<\/a><\/strong> says that  the <strong>European Commission<\/strong> will take <strong>France <\/strong>and <strong>Luxembourg <\/strong>to task in the <strong>EU Court of Justice <\/strong>over its cut-rate <strong>VAT (Value Added Tax)<\/strong> on eBooks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Pre-Ordering coming to Kobo Writing Life\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/kobo-writing-life-introduces-pre-orders\/\" target=\"_self\">GoodeReader<\/a><\/strong> reports that <strong>Kobo <\/strong>has introduced pre-ordering to its Indie publishing platform <strong>Writing Life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Ray Bradbury's books now available digitally.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/feb\/20\/ray-bradbury-ebooks-available-uk\" target=\"_self\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong> posted that <strong>Ray Bradbury&#8217;s <\/strong>titles are now available as <strong>eBooks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNet hints that Apple may be working on a new eBook feature after filing a patent for a &#8220;floating toolbar.&#8221; The Bookseller says that the European Commission will take France and Luxembourg to task in the EU Court of Justice over its cut-rate VAT (Value Added Tax) on eBooks. GoodeReader reports that Kobo has introduced &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12767\">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":[7,3,11,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767"}],"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=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12777,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions\/12777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}