{"id":6900,"date":"2010-10-08T09:53:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2010-10-08T09:53:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:53:38","slug":"ebook-piracy-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6900","title":{"rendered":"eBook Piracy on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CNet News<\/strong> has the results of a recent study on<strong> eBook Piracy<\/strong>. Have a look at the <a title=\"iPad caused eBook Piracy\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-20018831-1.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>post<\/strong><\/a>, there&#8217;s a graph and everything.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it would be nice addition to yesterday&#8217;s <strong>eBook Rumors<\/strong> post. Notice in the survey they blame <strong>iPad&#8217;s <\/strong>release in part for the increase in piracy, and fail to mention that the biggest publishers in the industry jacked the prices of eBooks up just prior to iPad&#8217;s release. (Didn&#8217;t that have any impact?)<\/p>\n<p>Read along and you find the survey author, <strong>Attributor<\/strong>, &#8220;has announced partnerships with Macmillan and Kensington Publishing Corp.&#8221; So, we begin to see why eBook pricing is missing from the list of reasons for the increase in piracy. The survey provider has vested interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNet News has the results of a recent study on eBook Piracy. Have a look at the post, there&#8217;s a graph and everything. I thought it would be nice addition to yesterday&#8217;s eBook Rumors post. Notice in the survey they blame iPad&#8217;s release in part for the increase in piracy, and fail to mention that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6900\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900"}],"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=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6906,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}