{"id":7819,"date":"2011-01-23T17:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T22:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7819"},"modified":"2011-01-23T19:36:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T00:36:42","slug":"saturday-ebook-news-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7819","title":{"rendered":"Saturday eBook News Stories&#8230;held over to Sunday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Kobo eReader Giveaway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suite101.com\/content\/kobo-starts-facebook-contest-as-the-office-features-kobo-ereaders-a336215\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Suite101<\/strong><\/a> says <strong>Kobo <\/strong>is celebrating <strong>Kobo eReader&#8217;s<\/strong> guest stint in a recent episode of <em><strong>The Office<\/strong><\/em> by arranging a Facebook Contest and eReader giveaway.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Indian Libraries join the eBook Revolutions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/news\/Digitisation-of-books-to-start-soon-in-Kashmir\/740916\" target=\"_self\"><strong>The Indian Express<\/strong><\/a> has a post outlining the <strong>University of Kashmir&#8217;s<\/strong> progress in upgrading the Jammu and Kashmir libraries by digitizing some 8 million pages from books in various libraries.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sony eBook Reader app for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/androinica.com\/2011\/01\/21\/sony-reader-app-debuts-on-android\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Androinica<\/strong><\/a> reports on <strong>Sony Electronics<\/strong> announcement about the delivery of a <strong>Sony eBook Reader App<\/strong> for <strong>Android<\/strong>. The App is available for devices using <strong>Android 2.2<\/strong> or higher.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"70% Royalty on Amazon Canadian sales.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/ebooknewser\/amazon-extend-70-royalty-to-canada_b5187\" target=\"_self\"><strong>eBookNewser<\/strong><\/a> reports on <strong>Amazon<\/strong> extending the 70% royalty option from the <strong>Kindle Digital Text Platform<\/strong> (now <a title=\"Kindle Direct Publishin Explained\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suite101.com\/content\/amazon-changes-digital-text-platform-to-kindle-direct-publishing-a336179\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Kindle Direct Publishing<\/strong><\/a>)  for independent authors and publishers\u00c2\u00a0 to include Canadian customers.  Up until now the option only applied to US and European customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suite101 says Kobo is celebrating Kobo eReader&#8217;s guest stint in a recent episode of The Office by arranging a Facebook Contest and eReader giveaway. The Indian Express has a post outlining the University of Kashmir&#8217;s progress in upgrading the Jammu and Kashmir libraries by digitizing some 8 million pages from books in various libraries. Androinica &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7819\">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":[3,5,8,15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819"}],"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=7819"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7836,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819\/revisions\/7836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}