{"id":13395,"date":"2013-05-31T15:29:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2013-05-31T15:37:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T20:37:50","slug":"ebook-revolution-update-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13395","title":{"rendered":"eBook Revolution Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple versus DOJ trial starts next week.\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-57586765-37\/apple-and-the-doj-face-off-over-e-book-prices-faq\/\"><strong>CNET<\/strong><\/a> reports that the<strong> U.S. Department of Justice<\/strong> and <strong>Apple<\/strong> are gearing up for\u00a0the trial\u00a0that starts next week to determine whether the iPad creator colluded with publishers to fix eBook prices.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Indie publishing lowers average eBook price in market.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbookworld.com\/2013\/self-publishing-responsible-for-low-average-ebook-price\/\"><strong>Digital Book World<\/strong><\/a> says Indie publishing has lowered the average eBook price across the board. (That&#8217;s a good thing, isn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Execs discuss impact of eBooks.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/bea\/article\/57511-bea-2013-execs-debate-e-book-s-impact.html\"><strong>Publishers Weekly<\/strong><\/a> posted about the publishing industry debate on the impact of eBooks on the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Traditional publishing lies to cover its growing irrelevance.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/publishing-experts-say-ebook-sales-slowing\"><strong>The Examiner<\/strong><\/a> shines a light on the disinformation put out there by the traditional publishing industry. Traditional publishers claim that sales of eBook and eBook Readers have plateaued because the world needs traditional publishing. The truth is the<strong> eBook Revolution<\/strong> is not slowing down&#8211;traditional publishing is going extinct. (At least those elements of the traditional publishing fold that refuse to evolve.)<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0<a title=\"Kobo international sales eclipse domestic.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbookworld.com\/2013\/barbara-freethy-kobo-international-sales-far-eclipse-domestic\/\"><strong>Digital Book World<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0says\u00a0<strong>Kobo&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0international sales eclipse domestic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNET reports that the U.S. Department of Justice and Apple are gearing up for\u00a0the trial\u00a0that starts next week to determine whether the iPad creator colluded with publishers to fix eBook prices. Digital Book World says Indie publishing has lowered the average eBook price across the board. (That&#8217;s a good thing, isn&#8217;t it?) Publishers Weekly posted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13395\">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":[7,3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395"}],"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=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13408,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions\/13408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}