{"id":13907,"date":"2013-08-02T11:32:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13907"},"modified":"2013-08-02T11:32:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T16:32:33","slug":"ebook-revolution-update-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13907","title":{"rendered":"eBook Revolution update."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DOJ offers Apple eBook sales fixes.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/doj-floats-apple-ebook-price-fixing-remedies-7000018917\/\"><strong>ZDNET<\/strong><\/a> posted that the <strong>U.S. Department of Justice<\/strong> has some suggestions to upgrade <strong>Apple<\/strong> eBook sales practices following a guilty verdict in the <strong>iPad<\/strong> maker&#8217;s price-fixing lawsuit. One suggestion is to force <strong>Apple<\/strong> to allow links to competitors to better help consumers compare prices.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"S&amp;S cites 29% increase in digital title sales.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/digital-29-ss-second-quarter.html\"><strong>The Bookseller<\/strong><\/a> says <strong>Simon and Schuster<\/strong> cites a <strong>29%<\/strong> increase in eBook sales for the second quarter of <strong>2013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Popular TV<\/strong> series <strong>Miami Vice<\/strong> will return as a digital comic according to <a title=\"Miami Vice to return as digital comic\" href=\"http:\/\/wlrn.org\/post\/return-tvs-miami-vice-digital-comic-book\"><strong>WLRN.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"22% of readers want to pay $4.99 or less for eBooks.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbookworld.com\/2013\/reader-survey-22-wont-pay-more-than-4-99-for-a-book\/\"><strong>Digital Book World<\/strong><\/a> reports that <strong>22%<\/strong> of readers polled said they would not pay more than <strong>$4.99<\/strong> for an eBook. The survey also said that <strong>50%<\/strong> would not care how much an eBook cost if they truly wanted it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZDNET posted that the U.S. Department of Justice has some suggestions to upgrade Apple eBook sales practices following a guilty verdict in the iPad maker&#8217;s price-fixing lawsuit. One suggestion is to force Apple to allow links to competitors to better help consumers compare prices. The Bookseller says Simon and Schuster cites a 29% increase in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13907\">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\/13907"}],"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=13907"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13919,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13907\/revisions\/13919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}