{"id":5701,"date":"2010-05-22T18:14:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T23:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5701"},"modified":"2010-05-22T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T23:14:24","slug":"harlequin-goes-where-many-have-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5701","title":{"rendered":"Harlequin Goes Where Many Have Gone Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <a title=\"Harlequin sells linking stories...\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704691304575254382584297828.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_self\"><strong>link<\/strong><\/a> to a story at <strong><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> <\/strong>describing publisher <strong>Harlequin Enterprises<\/strong>&#8216; intention to sell a novella that &#8220;will serve as a link&#8221; between a novelist&#8217;s debut book and the second, that goes on sale <strong>July 27<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if people will buy what is generally offered as a <em><strong>freemium <\/strong><\/em>out there on the web, but you have to expect that a publisher will try selling eBook samples if there&#8217;s a remote possibility that they can get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> has evolved to allow for this kind of thing, or whether the reading public will see it as an attempt to charge <strong>$2.99<\/strong> for a 15,000 word &#8216;linking&#8217; novella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a story at The Wall Street Journal describing publisher Harlequin Enterprises&#8216; intention to sell a novella that &#8220;will serve as a link&#8221; between a novelist&#8217;s debut book and the second, that goes on sale July 27. It will be interesting to see if people will buy what is generally offered as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5701\">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":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701"}],"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=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5706,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}