{"id":7737,"date":"2011-01-12T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2011-01-12T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:13:06","slug":"ebook-piracy-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7737","title":{"rendered":"eBook Piracy in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the<strong> eBook Revolution<\/strong> settles into its first year in the mainstream, it makes sense that we&#8217;d find the focus shifting back to those nasty <strong>eBook Pirates<\/strong> again. Here we&#8217;ve got a couple of posts that indicate a subtle shift away from outright panic to something more reasonable where the powers that be may be starting to recognize that simple file-sharing is more likely to encourage sales than kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a post at <a title=\"Does DRM work? We'll try it anyway...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myce.com\/news\/book-industry-battling-e-book-piracy-drm-issues-38688\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Myce.com<\/strong><\/a> where publishers are still trying their hand at digitally locking eBooks (<strong>DRM<\/strong>) despite the fact that they do not know if it&#8217;s effective.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a story at <strong><a title=\"Is eBook Piracy a Blessing or a Curse?\" href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2011\/01\/book-piracy-drm-data.html\" target=\"_self\">O&#8217;ReillyRadar<\/a><\/strong> that underlines the truth that publishers are uncomfortable with: <em><strong>eBook Piracy seems to increase sales&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the eBook Revolution settles into its first year in the mainstream, it makes sense that we&#8217;d find the focus shifting back to those nasty eBook Pirates again. Here we&#8217;ve got a couple of posts that indicate a subtle shift away from outright panic to something more reasonable where the powers that be may be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7737\">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":[3,4,5,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737"}],"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=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7745,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions\/7745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}