{"id":14564,"date":"2014-01-21T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14564"},"modified":"2014-01-21T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:14:17","slug":"are-ebook-buyers-loyal-or-trapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14564","title":{"rendered":"Are eBook buyers loyal or trapped?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Are eBook buyers loyal or practical?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbookworld.com\/2014\/ebook-buyers-are-loyal-to-specific-retailers-especially-kindle-ibooks-and-nook-new-data-show\/\"><strong>Digital Book World<\/strong><\/a> says that a <strong>New York-based<\/strong> book industry research firm, <strong>Codex Group<\/strong>, puts <strong>86%<\/strong> of <strong>eBook buyers<\/strong> making their title purchases from one retailer only.<\/p>\n<p>Not a surprise when you consider these retailers have sold them proprietary devices and Apps. How much choice do they have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Book World says that a New York-based book industry research firm, Codex Group, puts 86% of eBook buyers making their title purchases from one retailer only. Not a surprise when you consider these retailers have sold them proprietary devices and Apps. How much choice do they have?<\/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\/14564"}],"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=14564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14569,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions\/14569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}