{"id":1813,"date":"2009-05-01T08:31:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T13:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2009-05-01T08:37:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T13:37:31","slug":"writers-start-your-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"Writers: Start Your Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These two stories signify\u00c2\u00a0important steps in the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>. The technology is new, and the prices are still too high, but this is the beginning of the start.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"And We're Off!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2009\/04\/200-e-book-reader-set-to-make-its-debut\/\" target=\"_self\">$200 eBook Reader to make its Debut<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BOOKS ON DEMAND<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/js\/2.0\/video\/evp\/module.js?loc=dom&amp;vid=\/video\/living\/2009\/05\/01\/riddell.uk.book.vending.machine.cnn\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript><\/noscript><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve got a related story about <strong>Print on Demand<\/strong> (POD) Printing Machines and Kiosks <a title=\"Now We Need Kiosks!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1066\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If I were Amazon.com, I&#8217;d worry less about competition and think more about staying relevant. After these stories, it seems to me that Amazon and other online eBook and book retailers begin to resemble overpriced search engines, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two stories signify\u00c2\u00a0important steps in the eBook Revolution. The technology is new, and the prices are still too high, but this is the beginning of the start. $200 eBook Reader to make its Debut BOOKS ON DEMAND We&#8217;ve got a related story about Print on Demand (POD) Printing Machines and Kiosks here. If I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1813\">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":[3,9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"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=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}