{"id":16520,"date":"2015-09-30T15:39:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16520"},"modified":"2015-09-30T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:39:13","slug":"ebook-price-fixer-simon-schuster-is-comfortable-gouging-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16520","title":{"rendered":"eBook price-fixer Simon &#038; Schuster is comfortable gouging consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/simon-schuster-has-no-problem-with-high-e-book-prices\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> reports that\u00a0<strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong>\u00a0(co-conspirator in the <strong>Apple eBook price-fixing scandal<\/strong>) believes that\u00a0raising its eBook prices is effective.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s effective if the publisher&#8217;s plan is to gouge consumers and slow the growth of the <strong>eBook Revolution\u00a0<\/strong>by undermining competition in the marketplace. Effective also if they want to encourage\u00a0<strong>eBook Piracy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoodeReader reports that\u00a0Simon &amp; Schuster\u00a0(co-conspirator in the Apple eBook price-fixing scandal) believes that\u00a0raising its eBook prices is effective. It&#8217;s effective if the publisher&#8217;s plan is to gouge consumers and slow the growth of the eBook Revolution\u00a0by undermining competition in the marketplace. Effective also if they want to encourage\u00a0eBook Piracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,5,8,12,15,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520"}],"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=16520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16525,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520\/revisions\/16525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}