{"id":2188,"date":"2009-06-08T08:53:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2009-06-08T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T14:00:18","slug":"digital-book-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"Digital book &#8220;ecosystem?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ecosystem?\" href=\"http:\/\/topnews.us\/content\/25442-google-confirms-plans-about-building-digital-book-ecosystem\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s a story at <strong>Top News<\/strong> about Google&#8217;s plans to get up in Amazon&#8217;s grill and offer a sales and search platform to eBook authors, publishers and stores.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m cool with it. Competition is good for business. My only concern is we&#8217;re really talking about\u00c2\u00a0an online\u00c2\u00a0marketplace for digital books, aren&#8217;t we? It worries me when a mammoth corporation like GOOGLE starts making up names for things that are shared by all. It&#8217;s rather\u00c2\u00a0presumptuous and\u00c2\u00a0denotes &#8216;ownership.&#8217; This one&#8217;s got focus-group all over it too. <em>Ecosystem <\/em>is a green-friendly and touchy feely name. I can just see the silly buggers passing that one around the boardroom. <em>Gag! <\/em>Google should know better, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8216;s a story at Top News about Google&#8217;s plans to get up in Amazon&#8217;s grill and offer a sales and search platform to eBook authors, publishers and stores. I&#8217;m cool with it. Competition is good for business. My only concern is we&#8217;re really talking about\u00c2\u00a0an online\u00c2\u00a0marketplace for digital books, aren&#8217;t we? It worries me when &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2188\">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":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188"}],"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=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}