{"id":2331,"date":"2009-06-20T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2009-06-20T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T17:59:50","slug":"ebook-sales-on-the-rise-despite-down-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"eBook Sales on the Rise despite Down Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read a <strong>Fiction Matters<\/strong> story <a title=\"eBook Sales Exploding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fictionmatters.com\/2009\/06\/17\/ebooks-salescontinue-to-explode-despite-down-economy\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0about the eBook&#8217;s continued success. The numbers suggest a widespread and rapid adoption (despite some faltering moments)\u00c2\u00a0regardless of the ridiculously high prices for eBook Reading devices (Kindle &amp; Sony almost <strong>$400<\/strong>) and the eBooks themselves (<strong>$9.99<\/strong> and up). Can you imagine what will happen when the <strong>$99<\/strong> eBook Reader hits a marketplace that offers eBooks for <strong>$2.99<\/strong> a pop?<\/p>\n<p>It will be like the first appearance of the paperback. That was created as a ubiquitous presence in airports, grocery stores and bus stops priced for the impulse buy. Then we&#8217;ll see\u00c2\u00a0the eBook Revolution at its finest. We are simply watching the first steps, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read a Fiction Matters story here\u00c2\u00a0about the eBook&#8217;s continued success. The numbers suggest a widespread and rapid adoption (despite some faltering moments)\u00c2\u00a0regardless of the ridiculously high prices for eBook Reading devices (Kindle &amp; Sony almost $400) and the eBooks themselves ($9.99 and up). Can you imagine what will happen when the $99 eBook Reader hits &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2331\">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":[3,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331"}],"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=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}