{"id":5638,"date":"2010-05-15T09:11:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T14:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2010-05-15T09:11:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T14:11:22","slug":"is-ipad-or-price-guilty-of-supercharging-ebook-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5638","title":{"rendered":"Is iPad or Price Guilty of Supercharging eBook Piracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CNetNews&#8217;<\/strong> <em><strong>David Carnoy<\/strong><\/em> takes a look at eBook piracy in his excellent article:\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;<a title=\"Is iPad supercharging eBook piracy.\" href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/8301-18438_7-20005008-82.html\" target=\"_self\">Is iPad supercharging e-book piracy?<\/a>&#8221; Carnoy makes some great points, but  it&#8217;s a false argument to blame the hardware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overpriced digital content<\/strong> is &#8216;<em><strong>supercharging<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; eBook piracy. <em><strong>Period<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If eBooks aren&#8217;t worth stealing for profit, and consumers don&#8217;t &#8216;t feel like they&#8217;re being fleeced by publishers, there will be no &#8216;supercharged&#8217; black market in pirated eBooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNetNews&#8217; David Carnoy takes a look at eBook piracy in his excellent article:\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Is iPad supercharging e-book piracy?&#8221; Carnoy makes some great points, but it&#8217;s a false argument to blame the hardware. Overpriced digital content is &#8216;supercharging&#8216; eBook piracy. Period. If eBooks aren&#8217;t worth stealing for profit, and consumers don&#8217;t &#8216;t feel like they&#8217;re being &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5638\">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":[3,4,5,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638"}],"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=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5642,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/5642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}