{"id":20801,"date":"2020-10-01T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=20801"},"modified":"2020-10-01T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:18:00","slug":"publishers-call-library-ebook-loans-lost-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=20801","title":{"rendered":"Publishers call Library eBook Loans &#8220;Lost Profits&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Publishers continue to struggle with the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>, according to a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/publishers-worry-ebooks-libraries-virtual-shelves\/\">Wired<\/a><\/strong> story. The <strong>COVID-19 pandemic&#8217;s enforced isolation<\/strong> rules have <strong>turned readers onto eBooks<\/strong> in a serious way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has put library eBook titles in high demand and that puts publishers in a funk as they call such activity a &#8220;profit killer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sad that we&#8217;re destined for another dispute between them and libraries, when all they really have to do is come up with a new business model to suit the future of publishing. They have to evolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers continue to struggle with the eBook Revolution, according to a Wired story. The COVID-19 pandemic&#8217;s enforced isolation rules have turned readers onto eBooks in a serious way. This has put library eBook titles in high demand and that puts publishers in a funk as they call such activity a &#8220;profit killer.&#8221; Sad that we&#8217;re &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=20801\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801"}],"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=20801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20803,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801\/revisions\/20803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}