{"id":21475,"date":"2021-12-12T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=21475"},"modified":"2021-12-12T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T14:12:47","slug":"legacy-publishers-fight-against-fair-ebook-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=21475","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Publishers Fight Against Fair eBook Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the <strong>legacy publishers&#8217; war on public libraries<\/strong> is flaring up again. According to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20211209\/22131048089\/book-publishers-sue-maryland-over-law-that-would-require-them-to-offer-reasonable-prices-ebooks-to-libraries.shtml\"><strong>Techdirt<\/strong><\/a> story,\u00a0 <strong>publishers are suing Maryland<\/strong> to thwart a state law that is intended to make them <strong>charge reasonable prices for eBook titles they sell to libraries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the legacy publishers&#8217; war on public libraries is flaring up again. According to this Techdirt story,\u00a0 publishers are suing Maryland to thwart a state law that is intended to make them charge reasonable prices for eBook titles they sell to libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475"}],"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=21475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21477,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475\/revisions\/21477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}