{"id":18303,"date":"2017-09-29T13:21:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18303"},"modified":"2017-09-29T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T18:22:48","slug":"ebook-sales-increase-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18303","title":{"rendered":"eBook Sales increase in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/financial-reporting\/article\/74913-e-book-sales-rise-in-may-for-first-time-in-two-years.html\"><strong>Publishers Weekly<\/strong><\/a> reported on a <strong>2.4% increase in eBook sales<\/strong> in <strong>May of 2017<\/strong> for the first time in two years.<\/p>\n<p>The eBook format has a loyal following that is only encouraged as the legacy publishers remember the highly profitable early days of the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> and begin dropping their digital prices accordingly. Those publishers left a lot of money on the table when they started overpricing eBook titles to drive readers back to paper.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the money&#8217;s still waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers Weekly reported on a 2.4% increase in eBook sales in May of 2017 for the first time in two years. The eBook format has a loyal following that is only encouraged as the legacy publishers remember the highly profitable early days of the eBook Revolution and begin dropping their digital prices accordingly. Those publishers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18303\">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":[3,11,4,5,8,6,25,12,15,14,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303"}],"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=18303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18306,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions\/18306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}