{"id":13156,"date":"2013-04-23T10:15:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13156"},"modified":"2013-04-23T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:15:46","slug":"german-court-says-no-to-used-digital-book-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13156","title":{"rendered":"German court says no to &#8220;used&#8221; digital book sales."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"German Court says no to used eBooks.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/digital\/retailing\/article\/56916-german-court-nixes-selling-used-e-books.html\" target=\"_self\">Publishers Weekly<\/a><\/strong> reports that the <strong>German court <\/strong>will not allow the sale of &#8220;used&#8221; digital books without the consent of author and publisher.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how long this stands up with giants like <strong>Amazon <\/strong>and <strong>Apple <\/strong>prepping to profit from the sale of used eBooks in a &#8220;cake and eat it too&#8217; scenario that neatly cuts the author and publisher out of their share.<\/p>\n<p>Lower eBook prices would make such a &#8220;re-sale&#8221; market unprofitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers Weekly reports that the German court will not allow the sale of &#8220;used&#8221; digital books without the consent of author and publisher. We&#8217;ll see how long this stands up with giants like Amazon and Apple prepping to profit from the sale of used eBooks in a &#8220;cake and eat it too&#8217; scenario that neatly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13156\">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":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13156"}],"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=13156"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13163,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13156\/revisions\/13163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}