{"id":18604,"date":"2018-01-25T15:07:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T20:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18604"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T20:09:40","slug":"apple-gearing-to-challenge-amazons-ebook-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18604","title":{"rendered":"Apple Gearing Up to Challenge Amazon&#8217;s eBook Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/news\/apple-hires-amazon-audible-vice-president\/\"><strong>MacObserver<\/strong><\/a> post <strong>Apple<\/strong> is preparing to reclaim lost eBook market share with the recent hire of <strong>Amazon&#8217;s Senior VP<\/strong> at <strong>Audible, Kashif Zafar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That move linked to <strong>Apple&#8217;s<\/strong> impending upgrade of its eBook reading App\u00a0<strong>iBooks<\/strong>\u00a0(soon to be called &#8220;<strong>Books<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>audiobook<\/strong> additions, store redesign and <strong>App\/reading<\/strong> interactivity improvements)\u00a0shows the online retailer and<strong> iPhone giant<\/strong> is ready <strong>to go after Amazon<\/strong>&#8216;s eBook dominance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s about time.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a MacObserver post Apple is preparing to reclaim lost eBook market share with the recent hire of Amazon&#8217;s Senior VP at Audible, Kashif Zafar. That move linked to Apple&#8217;s impending upgrade of its eBook reading App\u00a0iBooks\u00a0(soon to be called &#8220;Books&#8221;\u00a0with\u00a0audiobook additions, store redesign and App\/reading interactivity improvements)\u00a0shows the online retailer and iPhone giant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18604\">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":[7,3,11,4,5,8,12,15,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18604"}],"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=18604"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18611,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18604\/revisions\/18611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}