{"id":6909,"date":"2010-10-10T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T19:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2010-10-10T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T19:44:30","slug":"ebooks-cost-more-than-hard-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6909","title":{"rendered":"eBooks Cost More than Hard Covers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More screwy pricing news at Amazon from <a title=\"eBooks Priced Over Hard Covers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/business\/ci_16292942?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_self\"><em><strong>Mercury News<\/strong><\/em><\/a> that reports a couple of digital bestsellers hitting the Information Highway priced higher than their paperback equivalents.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Follett&#8217;s <em>Fall of Giants <\/em>from Dutton was priced<strong> $19.99<\/strong> for the eBook and <strong>$19.39<\/strong> for the hard cover.<\/p>\n<p>And publisher<strong> Little Brown &amp; Co.<\/strong> marked their <em>Don&#8217;t Blink<\/em> title at <strong>$14.99<\/strong> for the eBook and <strong>$14.00<\/strong> for the hardcover.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to understand where they&#8217;re going with this ridiculous trend. All they&#8217;re doing is slowing down the <strong>eBook Revolution <\/strong>and encouraging eBook Piracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More screwy pricing news at Amazon from Mercury News that reports a couple of digital bestsellers hitting the Information Highway priced higher than their paperback equivalents. Ken Follett&#8217;s Fall of Giants from Dutton was priced $19.99 for the eBook and $19.39 for the hard cover. And publisher Little Brown &amp; Co. marked their Don&#8217;t Blink &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6909\">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":[7,4,5,6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909"}],"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=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6917,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}