{"id":7782,"date":"2011-01-18T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2011-01-18T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T18:15:36","slug":"borders-struggles-to-remain-competitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7782","title":{"rendered":"Borders Struggles to Remain Competitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second-largest bricks and mortar bookseller in the U.S. is struggling to remain viable and competitive in the digital age. <a title=\"Borders Struggles for Survival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20110117\/BIZ\/101170343\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>TheDetroitNews.com<\/strong><\/a> offers comprehensive coverage of <strong>Border&#8217;s<\/strong> ironic fight to survive in an era when people are reading more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve followed its efforts to remain relevant including its attempt to buy rival <a title=\"Borders bids on B&amp;N\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7417\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Barnes and Noble<\/strong><\/a>. We hope the best for this big competitor whose continued existence will keep the other book giants from dominating the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second-largest bricks and mortar bookseller in the U.S. is struggling to remain viable and competitive in the digital age. TheDetroitNews.com offers comprehensive coverage of Border&#8217;s ironic fight to survive in an era when people are reading more than ever. We&#8217;ve followed its efforts to remain relevant including its attempt to buy rival Barnes and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7782\">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":[4,5,8,6,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782"}],"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=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7792,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}