{"id":20058,"date":"2019-07-29T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T22:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=20058"},"modified":"2019-07-29T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T22:11:39","slug":"300-million-loss-to-ebook-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=20058","title":{"rendered":"$300-Million Loss to eBook Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/adamrowe1\/2019\/07\/28\/us-publishers-are-still-losing-300-million-annually-to-ebook-piracy\/#352ed052319e\">Forbes<\/a><\/strong> article says <strong>U.S. Publishers are losing $300-million annually to eBook Piracy<\/strong>. Then the paper drops the ball with a shrug regarding the reasons eBook Piracy is rife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>eBookRumors.com<\/strong> has been repeating this mantra for years: publishers need to lower prices on eBooks; make them more accessible by removing DRM; and break out of the proprietary formats that undercut all feelings of true ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consumers clearly feel ripped off by the people who sell them digital products. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re so comfortable ripping off the publishers and authors in turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Forbes article says U.S. Publishers are losing $300-million annually to eBook Piracy. Then the paper drops the ball with a shrug regarding the reasons eBook Piracy is rife. eBookRumors.com has been repeating this mantra for years: publishers need to lower prices on eBooks; make them more accessible by removing DRM; and break out of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=20058\">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":[7,11,4,5,8,6,25,12,15,14,16,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058"}],"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=20058"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20062,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058\/revisions\/20062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}