{"id":2295,"date":"2009-06-18T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2009-06-18T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:30:42","slug":"interesting-development-at-mp-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"Interesting development at MP Publishing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a press release: &#8220;<strong>MP Publishing<\/strong> is acquiring thousands of book titles from publishers all over the world and making them available for instant download through their website, <strong><a title=\"skoobstore.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skoobestore.com\" target=\"_self\">www.skoobestore.com<\/a><\/strong>, and through mass distribution channels.&#8221; Read the full release <a title=\"eBooks for mass distributions.\" href=\" http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/press-release\/Aptara-1005202.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. What I like about this crew is they&#8217;re open to established publishing houses <em>and<\/em> independent authors. I looked around their site, and they&#8217;re asking over $10 US for an eBook. Still charging too much, and that will promote piracy. Same old story, but it&#8217;s encouraging. Companies like this getting into the act will pave the way for that creator-to-consumer marketplace that I dream about, <em>yah<\/em>?<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a press release: &#8220;MP Publishing is acquiring thousands of book titles from publishers all over the world and making them available for instant download through their website, www.skoobestore.com, and through mass distribution channels.&#8221; Read the full release here. What I like about this crew is they&#8217;re open to established publishing houses and independent authors. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2295\">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":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295"}],"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=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}