{"id":14641,"date":"2014-02-07T16:39:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T21:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14641"},"modified":"2014-02-07T16:39:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T21:39:18","slug":"digital-publishing-headlines-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14641","title":{"rendered":"Digital Publishing Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sony says goodbye to North American eBook market\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/02\/06\/sony-exits-the-north-american-ebook-business-and-gives-its-customers-to-kobo\/\"><strong>Gigaom<\/strong><\/a> tells us that <strong>Sony<\/strong> is leaving the North American eBook business. (Sony customer libraries will be switched to Kobo.) They never seemed to have their hearts in it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sony\/Kobo deal for Sony customers.\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/sony-kobo-ebook-deal-means-readers\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> has more on what the <strong>Sony\/Kobo<\/strong> deal means to readers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"eBook Competition deal lowers prices for Canadian eBooks\" href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/1135359\/competition-deal-should-lower-e-book-prices\/\"><strong>GlobalNews<\/strong><\/a> reports that a competition deal signed with publishers should see a <strong>20% drop<\/strong> in eBook prices for <strong>Canadians<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Readfy eBook subscription to offer ads\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/ready-offering-ad-ebook-subscription\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> also reports that the <strong>Readfy eBook subscription service<\/strong> will offer ads. (Not sure how that will fly&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigaom tells us that Sony is leaving the North American eBook business. (Sony customer libraries will be switched to Kobo.) They never seemed to have their hearts in it. GoodeReader has more on what the Sony\/Kobo deal means to readers. GlobalNews reports that a competition deal signed with publishers should see a 20% drop in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14641\">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":[7,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641"}],"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=14641"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14647,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641\/revisions\/14647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}