{"id":16862,"date":"2016-02-04T12:19:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16862"},"modified":"2016-02-04T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:19:42","slug":"indies-continue-to-grab-market-share-with-reasonable-prices-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16862","title":{"rendered":"Indies continue to grab market share with reasonable prices and innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/feb\/03\/ebook-sales-falling-for-the-first-time-finds-new-report\">Guardian<\/a><\/strong> article confirms that the decrease in <strong>UK eBook sales<\/strong> can be blamed directly on the <strong>Five Biggest UK Publishers&#8217;<\/strong> insistence on <strong>using Agency Pricing<\/strong> that allows them to <strong>set<\/strong> their <strong>eBook prices disagreeably high<\/strong>. (A practice they&#8217;ve adopted to undermine the eBook market and to force\u00a0consumers back to print.)<\/p>\n<p>The article goes on to show that <strong>Indie authors and publishers continue to eat up the market share <\/strong>that the\u00a0<strong>big five\u00a0publishers<\/strong> are throwing away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guardian article confirms that the decrease in UK eBook sales can be blamed directly on the Five Biggest UK Publishers&#8217; insistence on using Agency Pricing that allows them to set their eBook prices disagreeably high. (A practice they&#8217;ve adopted to undermine the eBook market and to force\u00a0consumers back to print.) The article goes on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16862\">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":[7,3,11,4,5,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16862"}],"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=16862"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16871,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16862\/revisions\/16871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}