{"id":16552,"date":"2015-10-13T15:24:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16552"},"modified":"2015-10-13T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T20:24:02","slug":"traditional-publishers-continue-to-lose-market-share-to-indie-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16552","title":{"rendered":"Traditional publishers continue to lose market share to Indie authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2015\/10\/surprise-print-does-better-when-publishers-jack-up-ebook-prices\/\">The Observer<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0reports\u00a0traditional publishers are continuing to lose market share to Indie authors. (And it&#8217;s their own damn fault.)<\/p>\n<p>If they&#8217;d just embrace the digital book market instead of constantly trying to manipulate it (by overpricing their eBooks, etc.), who knows, they might be able to compete with the Indies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Observer\u00a0reports\u00a0traditional publishers are continuing to lose market share to Indie authors. (And it&#8217;s their own damn fault.) If they&#8217;d just embrace the digital book market instead of constantly trying to manipulate it (by overpricing their eBooks, etc.), who knows, they might be able to compete with the Indies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552"}],"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=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16557,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions\/16557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}