{"id":18241,"date":"2017-09-05T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18241"},"modified":"2017-09-05T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T18:14:49","slug":"amazon-advises-publishers-to-slash-ebook-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18241","title":{"rendered":"Amazon advises publishers to slash eBook prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/naggar-tells-publishers-slash-e-book-prices-631071\"><strong>The Bookseller<\/strong><\/a> posted a plea from <strong>Amazon&#8217;s publishing chief David Naggar<\/strong> for legacy publishers to slash their eBook prices to promote digital sales and invigorate a lackluster eBook market.<\/p>\n<p>Is Amazon tired of publishers poisoning the once-full literary well with over-priced titles? There&#8217;s a good chance the e-retailer is remembering the heady early days of the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Or does <strong>Amazon<\/strong> regret enticing <strong>Indie authors<\/strong> into the exclusive (and unprofitable) <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> corral to tilt the playing field toward legacy publishers who ignored the advantage in favor of propping up the shrinking paper book market?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bookseller posted a plea from Amazon&#8217;s publishing chief David Naggar for legacy publishers to slash their eBook prices to promote digital sales and invigorate a lackluster eBook market. Is Amazon tired of publishers poisoning the once-full literary well with over-priced titles? There&#8217;s a good chance the e-retailer is remembering the heady early days of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18241\">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":[7,11,4,5,8,25,15,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241"}],"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=18241"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18248,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241\/revisions\/18248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}