{"id":6810,"date":"2010-09-29T08:50:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2010-09-29T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:51:38","slug":"the-future-of-ebooks-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6810","title":{"rendered":"The Future of eBooks Now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great link here from <a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Jorgen<\/strong><\/a> to a <a title=\"We'll all lose money. And then we'll learn.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.futurebook.net\/content\/well-all-lose-money-and-then-well-learn\" target=\"_self\"><strong>FutureBook.net<\/strong><\/a> post called: <a title=\"We'll all lose money. And then we'll learn.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.futurebook.net\/content\/well-all-lose-money-and-then-well-learn\" target=\"_self\"><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;ll all lose money. And then we&#8217;ll learn.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> An informative piece that updates the constantly updating eBook marketplace as it relates to pricing, author profits and piracy.<\/p>\n<p>I think the goal is clear when dealing with piracy and file-sharing: &#8220;Affordable pricing is the key.&#8221; And as explosive as the market is,<em><strong> time is still required<\/strong><\/em> for trends to be established and understood.<\/p>\n<p>A note here regarding the post&#8217;s title: The <em><strong>status quo<\/strong><\/em> will &#8220;lose money,&#8221; just as established authors might see a temporary adjustment in their cash-flows. But the vast untapped resource of authors who were shut out of the old (<em><strong>Bestseller or Die<\/strong><\/em>) system will actually start to make money from their titles. After that, talent (and luck) will decide who makes a living as a writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great link here from Jorgen to a FutureBook.net post called: &#8220;We&#8217;ll all lose money. And then we&#8217;ll learn.&#8221; An informative piece that updates the constantly updating eBook marketplace as it relates to pricing, author profits and piracy. I think the goal is clear when dealing with piracy and file-sharing: &#8220;Affordable pricing is the key.&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6810\">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":[7,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810"}],"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=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6817,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}