{"id":13343,"date":"2013-05-22T09:23:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T14:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13343"},"modified":"2013-05-22T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T14:23:43","slug":"master-of-horror-becomes-master-of-market-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13343","title":{"rendered":"Master of Horror becomes Master of Market Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Master of Horror now Master of Market Manipulation\" href=\"http:\/\/upstart.bizjournals.com\/entrepreneurs\/hot-shots\/2013\/05\/20\/why-stephen-king-is-great-beach-buddy.html\"><strong>Upstart Business Journal<\/strong><\/a> has a post about horror author <strong>Stephen King<\/strong> forcing his fans to shop in bricks and mortar book stores by releasing a <em>hard-copy-only<\/em> version of his new book <em><strong>Joyland<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Is the <strong>Master of Horror<\/strong> becoming the <strong>Master of Market Manipulation<\/strong>? I think this is really just going to guarantee a healthy demand for pirated versions of his titles, and will alienate eBook enthusiasts that King once encouraged to go digital with his <em><strong>Ride the Bullet<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;Internet&#8221; title back in <strong>2000<\/strong>. (Didn&#8217;t he help start the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upstart Business Journal has a post about horror author Stephen King forcing his fans to shop in bricks and mortar book stores by releasing a hard-copy-only version of his new book Joyland. Is the Master of Horror becoming the Master of Market Manipulation? I think this is really just going to guarantee a healthy demand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13343\">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":[3,4,5,8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343"}],"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=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13346,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions\/13346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}