{"id":2519,"date":"2009-07-08T08:25:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2009-07-08T08:25:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T13:25:31","slug":"freemium-okay-cute-name-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Freemium? Okay&#8230; cute name, why not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article at the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> takes a short but effective\u00c2\u00a0stab at describing the new eBook business model. Read the full story <a title=\"Freemium Business Model...\" href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/technology\/2009\/07\/digital-books-free-is-a-very-good-price.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The gist of\u00c2\u00a0it is: &#8220;give away the basic version to build your initial audience, then sell them premium features, such as the ability to download the book or having a physical copy.&#8221; It&#8217;s kind of straightforward logic; but in that model\u00c2\u00a0the hard cover or paperback version of the book\u00c2\u00a0becomes the <strong>PREMIUM<\/strong> version that people will pay for. I can see that happening, as long as they&#8217;re not asking an arm and a leg.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sensible solution. The charm of &#8216;physical&#8217; books will stay with us for a long time to come, and the paperback becomes the extra feature you pay for,\u00c2\u00a0<em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article at the Los Angeles Times takes a short but effective\u00c2\u00a0stab at describing the new eBook business model. Read the full story here. The gist of\u00c2\u00a0it is: &#8220;give away the basic version to build your initial audience, then sell them premium features, such as the ability to download the book or having a physical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2519\">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\/2519"}],"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=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}