{"id":8095,"date":"2011-02-28T10:31:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8095"},"modified":"2011-02-28T10:31:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:31:44","slug":"rupert-murdoch-draconian-overlord-of-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8095","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch = Draconian Overlord of Publishing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. Maybe I overstated the case, but the publishing arm of <strong>Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s<\/strong> empire has declared war on public libraries. A Harper Collins eBook can be loaned out by a library only <strong>26 times!<\/strong> <strong>TWENTY-SIX!<\/strong> Murdoch says that number is based on a several factors &#8220;including the average lifespan of a print book, and wear and tear on circulating copies.&#8221; Come on!<\/p>\n<p>This attack on the public purse in the days of tight municipal budgets is a form of eBook Piracy that would shame the most active <strong>eBook Pirate<\/strong>. Read the story entitled:<em><strong> &#8220;The benign piracy of libraries vs Harper Collins&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> at <a title=\"Benign Piracy of Libraries\" href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=28667\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Mobylives<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. Maybe I overstated the case, but the publishing arm of Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s empire has declared war on public libraries. A Harper Collins eBook can be loaned out by a library only 26 times! TWENTY-SIX! Murdoch says that number is based on a several factors &#8220;including the average lifespan of a print book, and wear &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8095\">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\/8095"}],"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=8095"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8108,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}