{"id":8649,"date":"2011-05-16T09:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8649"},"modified":"2011-05-16T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:36:41","slug":"still-a-future-for-bookstores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8649","title":{"rendered":"Still a Future for Bookstores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"There is a future for bookstores.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/live\/content\/business\/stories\/2011\/05\/15\/booksellers-even-small-ones-optimistic-as-overall-sales-increase.html?sid=101\" target=\"_self\"><em><strong>The Columbus Dispatch<\/strong><\/em><\/a> offers a story that runs contrary to the grim publishing industry mood that has been predicting the demise of the bookstore. Bookselling giant <strong>Borders&#8217;<\/strong> filing for bankruptcy has fueled the rumors of destruction for an industry struggling to adapt to the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This post says new bookstores continue to open despite the doom and gloom, and while the future is dark for over-sized franchises, it may be bright for independent shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Dispatch offers a story that runs contrary to the grim publishing industry mood that has been predicting the demise of the bookstore. Bookselling giant Borders&#8217; filing for bankruptcy has fueled the rumors of destruction for an industry struggling to adapt to the eBook Revolution. This post says new bookstores continue to open despite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8649\">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":[3,11,4,5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649"}],"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=8649"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8656,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions\/8656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}