{"id":8763,"date":"2011-06-01T08:41:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2011-06-01T08:41:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:41:42","slug":"good-technology-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8763","title":{"rendered":"Good technology. Bad idea."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Digtal signatures for eBooks...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/ebooknewser\/should-authors-charge-for-ebook-signatures_b11834\" target=\"_self\"><strong>eBookNewser<\/strong><\/a> has a story about new technology that allows authors to digitally &#8216;sign&#8217; their eBooks. Customers can order a &#8216;personalized&#8217; signature or purchase a prepared file that can be added to the eBook at checkout.<\/p>\n<p>While I think it&#8217;s an interesting development, that certainly has merit&#8211;especially, if they can make it &#8216;real time&#8217; for authors at eBook signings&#8211;I cannot imagine paying extra for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBookNewser has a story about new technology that allows authors to digitally &#8216;sign&#8217; their eBooks. Customers can order a &#8216;personalized&#8217; signature or purchase a prepared file that can be added to the eBook at checkout. While I think it&#8217;s an interesting development, that certainly has merit&#8211;especially, if they can make it &#8216;real time&#8217; for authors &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8763\">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":[4,5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763"}],"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=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8768,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions\/8768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}