{"id":8002,"date":"2011-02-14T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:02:22","slug":"google-books-is-strangely-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8002","title":{"rendered":"Google Books is Strangely Quiet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, we mentioned <strong>Google <\/strong>purchasing <strong>eBook Technologies<\/strong> back in January, not long after the search engine giant opened their online eBook store, <a title=\"Google Books\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Google Books<\/strong><\/a>. <strong>eBook Technologies <\/strong>specialized in eBook software and held a handful of eBook-related patents.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the <em><strong>GoogleBooksphere <\/strong><\/em>has been kind of quiet. I mean, no discussion of eBook sales, or mention of quarrels with publishers, just relative <em>quiet<\/em>. This post at <a title=\"Google Building its own eBook Reader?\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/is-google-developing-a-new-e-reader\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> suggests that Google is using its new acquisition to build and design a <strong>Google eBook Reader<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we mentioned Google purchasing eBook Technologies back in January, not long after the search engine giant opened their online eBook store, Google Books. eBook Technologies specialized in eBook software and held a handful of eBook-related patents. Since then, the GoogleBooksphere has been kind of quiet. I mean, no discussion of eBook sales, or mention &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8002\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002"}],"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=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8008,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}