{"id":17505,"date":"2016-10-02T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T16:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17505"},"modified":"2016-10-02T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T16:58:44","slug":"publishers-continue-to-manipulate-the-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17505","title":{"rendered":"Publishers continue to manipulate the marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/09\/30\/print-and-ebook-revenue-down-as-amazon-slashes-prices\/\"><strong>Tech Crunch<\/strong><\/a> highlights the insanity that has taken hold of publishing. The legacy publishers&#8217; plans to force people to buy &#8220;print&#8221; books by pricing their eBooks too high\u00a0has been countered by Amazon slashing the price of their print titles.<\/p>\n<p>The lopsided results are lower revenues for everyone, and a print and eBook marketplace that is out of balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Crunch highlights the insanity that has taken hold of publishing. The legacy publishers&#8217; plans to force people to buy &#8220;print&#8221; books by pricing their eBooks too high\u00a0has been countered by Amazon slashing the price of their print titles. The lopsided results are lower revenues for everyone, and a print and eBook marketplace that is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17505\">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":[7,3,11,4,5,25,15,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505"}],"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=17505"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17512,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505\/revisions\/17512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}