{"id":12867,"date":"2013-03-10T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12867"},"modified":"2013-03-10T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T15:31:32","slug":"amazon-and-apple-to-double-dip-with-ebook-resales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12867","title":{"rendered":"Amazon and Apple to double dip with eBook resales."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Amazon and Apple file for eBook resale patents.\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/apple-and-amazon-file-patents-to-sell-used-ebooks\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> reports that both <strong>Amazon <\/strong>and <strong>Apple <\/strong>have filed patents<em><strong> to sell used eBooks<\/strong><\/em>. (Already sounds greedy, doesn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n<p>Instead of keeping the eBook cover price low and encouraging new purchases, they&#8217;re going to create a <strong>resale market<\/strong>. I suppose it works as long as they put a cap on the number of times an eBook can be resold.<\/p>\n<p>Since eBooks do not wear out, each title could be resold forever without such a cap, which would represent the main threat to author royalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoodeReader reports that both Amazon and Apple have filed patents to sell used eBooks. (Already sounds greedy, doesn&#8217;t it?) Instead of keeping the eBook cover price low and encouraging new purchases, they&#8217;re going to create a resale market. I suppose it works as long as they put a cap on the number of times an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12867\">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":[3,4,5,8,12,15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867"}],"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=12867"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12874,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions\/12874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}