{"id":14401,"date":"2013-12-07T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T14:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14401"},"modified":"2013-12-07T09:51:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T14:51:34","slug":"ebook-revolution-update-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14401","title":{"rendered":"eBook Revolution Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"E Ink backup screen on smartphone.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-25201195\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a> has a story about<strong> Yota&#8217;s<\/strong> new phone that boasts <strong>two<\/strong> screens. On one side the <strong>Android<\/strong>\u00a0device offers the <strong>traditional full color screen<\/strong>, while on the other you&#8217;ll find an <strong>E Ink screen<\/strong>. The designers have incorporated the low-energy<strong> E Ink<\/strong> for static displays, but one wonders if you can read eBooks on it. There are a lot of people out there squinting to read eBooks on traditional (glaring) smartphones who might jump at this innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"eBook buying guide.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techhive.com\/article\/245183\/find-the-perfect-e-reader.html\"><strong>TechHive<\/strong><\/a> offers one of the first eBook buying guides we&#8217;ve seen for the <strong>2013<\/strong> gift giving season. (Video at the link.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"eBook best-sellers to Dec. 1, 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbookworld.com\/category\/ebook-best-sellers\/\"><strong>Digital Book World<\/strong><\/a> has eBook best-seller lists for the week ending <strong>Dec. 1, 2013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Scribd offers eBook subscription gift cards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/scribd-is-offering-gift-cards-for-ebook-subscriptions_b80585\"><strong>MediaBistro<\/strong><\/a> reports that <strong>Scribd<\/strong> has gift cards available for eBook subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a title=\"Edmonton Public Library 2,000 eBooks richer\" href=\"http:\/\/metronews.ca\/news\/edmonton\/876545\/edmonton-public-library-gets-2000-new-ebook-titles\/\"><strong>MetroNews Canada<\/strong><\/a> story, the <strong>Edmonton Public Library<\/strong> just got <strong>2,000<\/strong> eBooks richer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC has a story about Yota&#8217;s new phone that boasts two screens. On one side the Android\u00a0device offers the traditional full color screen, while on the other you&#8217;ll find an E Ink screen. The designers have incorporated the low-energy E Ink for static displays, but one wonders if you can read eBooks on it. There &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14401\">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\/14401"}],"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=14401"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14408,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401\/revisions\/14408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}