{"id":4780,"date":"2010-02-18T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2010-02-18T09:38:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:38:20","slug":"ebook-readers-and-buyers-have-a-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4780","title":{"rendered":"eBook Readers (and Buyers) have a say&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers at <strong>Geeksugar.com<\/strong> were asked\u00c2\u00a0if\u00c2\u00a0eBooks should cost the same as traditional books. <strong>94%<\/strong> of those who responded agreed that eBooks should cost less.\u00c2\u00a0(They&#8217;re not just being contrary either, they&#8217;ve thought it through.) Take the <strong><a title=\"eBooks should cost less...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksugar.com\/Should-eBooks-Cost-Same-Traditional-Books-7434691\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to read a few of the responses.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00c2\u00a0publishers try to gouge loyal readers who obviously love books and are eager to adopt the new technology. It&#8217;s sad, but as long as these\u00c2\u00a0readers keep talking (with their wallets) the eBook prices will come down, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers at Geeksugar.com were asked\u00c2\u00a0if\u00c2\u00a0eBooks should cost the same as traditional books. 94% of those who responded agreed that eBooks should cost less.\u00c2\u00a0(They&#8217;re not just being contrary either, they&#8217;ve thought it through.) Take the link to read a few of the responses. So\u00c2\u00a0publishers try to gouge loyal readers who obviously love books and are eager &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4780\">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":[7,3,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780"}],"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=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4787,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions\/4787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}