{"id":14414,"date":"2013-12-10T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14414"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:37:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:37:31","slug":"indie-booksellers-lose-case-against-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14414","title":{"rendered":"Indie booksellers lose case against Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Indie bookstore owners lose case against Amazon.\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/12\/10\/indie-bookstores-lose-case-over-drm-on-amazon-kindle\/\"><strong>Gigaom<\/strong><\/a> says a New York Federal judge has thrown out an almost year-old case brought by independent booksellers against <strong>Amazon<\/strong>, where they say the <strong>Kindle-maker<\/strong> conspired with publishers to create a monopoly whereby the <strong>Kindle eReader&#8217;s<\/strong> proprietary <strong>digital rights management (DRM)<\/strong> software forced consumers to purchase from <strong>Amazon<\/strong> exclusively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigaom says a New York Federal judge has thrown out an almost year-old case brought by independent booksellers against Amazon, where they say the Kindle-maker conspired with publishers to create a monopoly whereby the Kindle eReader&#8217;s proprietary digital rights management (DRM) software forced consumers to purchase from Amazon exclusively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414"}],"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=14414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14416,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions\/14416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}