{"id":4701,"date":"2010-02-11T10:33:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:40:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:40:32","slug":"and-then-the-ebook-readers-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4701","title":{"rendered":"And then the eBook Readers said:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I <strong><a title=\"Publishers on the attack!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4673\" target=\"_self\">talked<\/a><\/strong> yesterday about a missing voice in the eBook pricing debate. Well, <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> dropped off\u00c2\u00a0 a link to an article in <strong><em><a title=\"eBook Prices Provoke Insurgency!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/11\/technology\/11reader.html\" target=\"_self\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Motoko Rich and Brad Stone where that voice is heard loud and clear. Read the article &#8220;E-Book Price Increase May Stir Readers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Passions&#8221; <strong><a title=\"eBook Prices Provoke Insurgency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/11\/technology\/11reader.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>. This is a good article that almost makes up for that lopsided story we commented on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;eBook Readers Insurgency&#8230; I paraphrase, but nice work, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>p.s. If you haven&#8217;t sent <strong><em>Impact<\/em><\/strong> author Douglas Preston an angry email yet, this might give you a reason.\u00c2\u00a0Preston\u00c2\u00a0who alienated a lot of his\u00c2\u00a0readers when his\u00c2\u00a0publisher held back the\u00c2\u00a0eBook version of <strong><em>Impact<\/em><\/strong> to force hard cover sales,\u00c2\u00a0has attacked his readership by\u00c2\u00a0saying he&#8217;s astonished by the &#8220;sense of entitlement of the American consumer.&#8221; He&#8217;d never accuse them of having good judgment, or a\u00c2\u00a0discerning eye when it comes to making a purchase.\u00c2\u00a0I actually cringed when I read\u00c2\u00a0his statement:\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the Wal-Mart mentality, which in my view is very unhealthy for our country. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s this notion of not wanting to pay the real price of something.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0A suggestion for Mr. Preston: &#8220;Your readers are not your enemies&#8230;&#8221; Readers want to pay Preston a fair price for his eBooks and he calls them Wal-Mart shoppers&#8230;Lord! (He also kind of takes a swipe at Wal-Mart shoppers there too, but that&#8217;s another battle.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I talked yesterday about a missing voice in the eBook pricing debate. Well, Jorgen dropped off\u00c2\u00a0 a link to an article in The New York Times by Motoko Rich and Brad Stone where that voice is heard loud and clear. Read the article &#8220;E-Book Price Increase May Stir Readers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Passions&#8221; here. This is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4701\">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":[3,4,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701"}],"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=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}