{"id":5608,"date":"2010-05-12T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5608"},"modified":"2010-05-12T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:43:41","slug":"ebook-news-from-the-far-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5608","title":{"rendered":"eBook News from the Far East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> sent us a link detailing some of the\u00c2\u00a0wider ranging developments in\u00c2\u00a0 (implications of?) the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>. A post at <strong><em><a title=\"China Protect Booming eBook Market\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shanghaidaily.com\/sp\/article\/2010\/201005\/20100510\/article_436554.htm\" target=\"_self\">The Shanghai Daily<\/a><\/em><\/strong> details recent market and product swings in eBook and eBook Reader sales, while hinting at the specter of protectionism (can censorship be far behind?). They&#8217;re nurturing local growth in a market that is fast being overrun\u00c2\u00a0by western digital publishers, technology industries and distributors with world domination on their minds.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re definitely talking growth though with Zhang Yijun, a senior official at the General Administration of Press and Publication reporting that\u00c2\u00a02009 e-book reader sales &#8220;reached 700,000 units in China and the figure is expected to quadruple to more than 3 million units.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an exciting development for the revolution, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorgen sent us a link detailing some of the\u00c2\u00a0wider ranging developments in\u00c2\u00a0 (implications of?) the eBook Revolution. A post at The Shanghai Daily details recent market and product swings in eBook and eBook Reader sales, while hinting at the specter of protectionism (can censorship be far behind?). They&#8217;re nurturing local growth in a market that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5608\">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\/5608"}],"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=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5615,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions\/5615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}