{"id":7147,"date":"2010-11-08T10:58:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2010-11-08T10:58:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:58:55","slug":"a-slippery-slope-at-barnes-and-noble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7147","title":{"rendered":"A Slippery Slope at Barnes and Noble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barnes &amp; Noble<\/strong> has announced their latest scheme to increase sales (and PROFIT) <strong><em>and <\/em><\/strong>offset the (sometimes) high price of eBooks. <strong>Knowelty.com<\/strong> <a title=\"Ads in eBOOKS at B&amp;N?\" href=\"http:\/\/knowelty.com\/barnes-noble-begins-book-advertising-with-danielle-steel-novel\/874720\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>reports<\/strong><\/a> that B&amp;N is set to release a Danielle Steele novel <strong>FREE <\/strong>to download but there&#8217;s a catch. Advertising will be built into the pages.<\/p>\n<p>They assure the readership that the advertisements will be unobtrusive and tasteful; but honestly, how long is that going to last? The minute publishers understand that they can add to their revenue streams by advertising between the digital covers of say, <em><strong>Stephen King&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> latest, then there will be a great temptation to build in more and more ads.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a slippery slope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnes &amp; Noble has announced their latest scheme to increase sales (and PROFIT) and offset the (sometimes) high price of eBooks. Knowelty.com reports that B&amp;N is set to release a Danielle Steele novel FREE to download but there&#8217;s a catch. Advertising will be built into the pages. They assure the readership that the advertisements will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7147\">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":[3,5,8,6,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147"}],"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=7147"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7154,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions\/7154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}