{"id":6761,"date":"2010-09-23T13:41:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T18:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2010-09-23T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T18:41:51","slug":"ebooks-and-agency-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6761","title":{"rendered":"eBooks and Agency Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for this link to <strong><a title=\"Agency Model Bad for Publishing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.futurebook.net\/content\/why-agency-model-flawed\" target=\"_self\">FutureBook.com<\/a><\/strong> and a story that explains the negative impact of the <strong>agency model<\/strong> for pricing eBooks, and how it&#8217;s set to help publishers and nobody else.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, that just leaves readers and writers out in the cold, which is a setup that dragged traditional publishing into the sewer. The difference now is\u00c2\u00a0piracy will pick up the slack the same way it did during the early days of digital music publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope that thoughts of\u00c2\u00a0the agency model\u00c2\u00a0for pricing will die a quick and quiet death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jorgen for this link to FutureBook.com and a story that explains the negative impact of the agency model for pricing eBooks, and how it&#8217;s set to help publishers and nobody else. Hey, that just leaves readers and writers out in the cold, which is a setup that dragged traditional publishing into the sewer. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6761\">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":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761"}],"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=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6769,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}