{"id":17962,"date":"2017-04-27T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17962"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:14:50","slug":"traditional-publishers-scammed-their-readers-by-overpricing-their-ebook-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17962","title":{"rendered":"Traditional publishers scammed their readers by overpricing their eBook titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingnewmedia.com\/2017\/04\/27\/in-solidarity-with-those-who-understand-what-is-happening-with-ebook-sales\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #6aa614; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Talking New Media<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>gives the true story on eBook Sales. They are not dropping at all&#8211;at least, not among Indie authors and independent publisher titles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The \u201csupposed\u201d\u00a0drop in sales was reported by the traditional (or legacy) publishers that intentionally rigged their game against eBook sales. (Remember: They want to go back to the way things were when\u00a0THEY decided who lived and died in PRINT publishing. To engineer this\u00a0they overpriced their own eBook titles to drive readers to purchase similarly or lower-priced print books. It was all a scam.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">These same publishers are all members of the Publishers Association to whom they report their sales figures. And in turn the Publishers Association reports the decline of eBooks while announcing the sudden resurgence in print book sales. See how that works? Scammed again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">In the meantime, Indie authors and publishers (that do not report\u00a0their sales figures to the Publishers Association) continue to take more of the market share.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking New Media\u00a0gives the true story on eBook Sales. They are not dropping at all&#8211;at least, not among Indie authors and independent publisher titles. The \u201csupposed\u201d\u00a0drop in sales was reported by the traditional (or legacy) publishers that intentionally rigged their game against eBook sales. (Remember: They want to go back to the way things were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17962\">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":[3,4,5,8,25,12,15,14,16,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962"}],"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=17962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17967,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962\/revisions\/17967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}