{"id":12950,"date":"2013-03-22T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12950"},"modified":"2013-03-22T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:07:23","slug":"digital-publishing-updates-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12950","title":{"rendered":"Digital Publishing Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Half of Americans to buy eBook in 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/appnewser\/almost-half-of-americans-expect-to-buy-an-ebook-this-year-bookbook_b33606\" target=\"_self\">Mediabistro<\/a><\/strong> reports that almost half of Americans plan to buy an eBook this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Book piracy tracking from Simon and Schuster.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbookworld.com\/2013\/simon-schuster-brings-attributor-anti-piracy-data-to-authors\/\" target=\"_self\">Digital Book World<\/a><\/strong> says publisher <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong> is bringing <strong>anti-piracy<\/strong> data to authors. Anything to sink their hooks deeper into their stock of writers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"eLending and libraries.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/international\/21573966-e-books-mean-plot-twist-public-libraries-and-publishers-folding-shelves\" target=\"_self\">The Economist<\/a><\/strong> posted on developments in electronic lending and libraries. The challenges continue.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Google Play Books in Mexico\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/google-play-books-now-available-in-mexico\/\" target=\"_self\">GoodeReader<\/a><\/strong> reports that <strong>Google Play Books<\/strong> are now available in <strong>Mexico<\/strong>. (Is anybody reading Google Play Books? I barely hear anything about it.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bookboard adds publishers to lineup.\" href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/2013\/03\/21\/childrens-ebook-ipad-app-bookboard-adds-publishers-subscription-model\/\" target=\"_self\">Paid Content<\/a><\/strong> has a story about the<strong> iPad app Bookboard<\/strong> adding new publishers to its line up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mediabistro reports that almost half of Americans plan to buy an eBook this year. Digital Book World says publisher Simon &amp; Schuster is bringing anti-piracy data to authors. Anything to sink their hooks deeper into their stock of writers. The Economist posted on developments in electronic lending and libraries. The challenges continue. GoodeReader reports that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12950\">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":[3,11,4,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950"}],"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=12950"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12965,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions\/12965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}