{"id":18669,"date":"2018-02-19T16:47:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18669"},"modified":"2018-02-19T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:47:53","slug":"hachette-ceo-is-totally-unprepared-for-next-wave-in-ebook-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18669","title":{"rendered":"Hachette CEO is TOTALLY UNPREPARED for Next Wave in eBook Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/hachette-ceo-proclaims-ebooks-are-a-stupid-product\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> reports on <strong>Hachette CEO<\/strong>, <strong>Arnaud Nourry&#8217;s inability to rise to the occasion. <\/strong>The <strong>publisher<\/strong> is\u00a0basically saying that he&#8217;s out of ideas as the next big wave in the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> approaches.<\/p>\n<p>He must have heard that <strong>Rakuten\/Kobo<\/strong> and <strong>Walmart<\/strong> will sell eBooks into the massive US marketplace, and that\u00a0<strong>Apple<\/strong> is revamping its <strong>iBooks<\/strong> (now <strong>Books<\/strong>) to take a share of the same <strong>Amazon-dominated<\/strong> market.<\/p>\n<p>And to meet the challenges ahead, Nourry says that eBooks are &#8220;stupid&#8221; and by extension implies that consumers of such products are too.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he should sit this one out. He&#8217;s in over his head and it&#8217;s time for round two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoodeReader reports on Hachette CEO, Arnaud Nourry&#8217;s inability to rise to the occasion. The publisher is\u00a0basically saying that he&#8217;s out of ideas as the next big wave in the eBook Revolution approaches. He must have heard that Rakuten\/Kobo and Walmart will sell eBooks into the massive US marketplace, and that\u00a0Apple is revamping its iBooks (now &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18669\">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":[7,28,3,11,4,5,8,25,12,15,14,16,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669"}],"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=18669"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18681,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions\/18681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}