{"id":18689,"date":"2018-02-22T10:25:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18689"},"modified":"2018-02-22T12:22:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:22:37","slug":"the-ebook-revolution-gathers-steam-in-hachette-rebuttal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18689","title":{"rendered":"The eBook Revolution Gathers Steam in Hachette Rebuttal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author <strong>Erin Kelly<\/strong> writes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/feb\/21\/ebooks-are-not-stupid-theyre-a-revolution-erin-kelly\"><strong>Guardian<\/strong><\/a> that eBooks are a &#8220;<strong>revolution<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>godsend<\/strong>&#8221; to counter <strong>Hachette Livre CEO<\/strong> (and <em>Luddite<\/em>) <strong>Arnaud Nourry&#8217;s<\/strong> angry and uninformed claim that eBooks are &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/feb\/20\/ebooks-are-stupid-hachette-livre-arnaud-nourry\"><em>stupid<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Nourry&#8217;s vacuous observations may say more about the observer and should be beneath consideration by all (<em>except those in charge of hiring at Hachette Livre<\/em>), the eBook and the amazing technology it represents, is deserving of Kelly&#8217;s thoughtful defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Erin Kelly writes in the Guardian that eBooks are a &#8220;revolution&#8221; and &#8220;godsend&#8221; to counter Hachette Livre CEO (and Luddite) Arnaud Nourry&#8217;s angry and uninformed claim that eBooks are &#8220;stupid.&#8221; While Nourry&#8217;s vacuous observations may say more about the observer and should be beneath consideration by all (except those in charge of hiring at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18689\">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":[28,3,11,4,5,8,6,25,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689"}],"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=18689"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18695,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689\/revisions\/18695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}