{"id":9299,"date":"2011-08-26T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T15:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9299"},"modified":"2011-08-26T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T15:54:51","slug":"who-is-buying-the-ebook-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9299","title":{"rendered":"Who is buying the eBook Readers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Who is buying eReaders?\" href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2011\/08\/26\/study-e-readers-win-the-hearts-of-your-mothers\/\" target=\"_self\"><em><strong>Time<\/strong><\/em><\/a> wonders who is buying all the<strong> eBook Readers<\/strong> in a <strong>Techland <\/strong>section post.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with some of their findings, but think the writer is showing a gigabyte of tech-savvy self-interest by suggesting even lightly that <strong>eBook Readers<\/strong> are &#8220;yesterday&#8217;s news.&#8221; Good God.<\/p>\n<p>Barely 20% of the North American population knows what an eBook is. Expand that globally, and you can see how ridiculous the suggestion sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time wonders who is buying all the eBook Readers in a Techland section post. I agree with some of their findings, but think the writer is showing a gigabyte of tech-savvy self-interest by suggesting even lightly that eBook Readers are &#8220;yesterday&#8217;s news.&#8221; Good God. Barely 20% of the North American population knows what an eBook &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9299\">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":[3,4,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9299"}],"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=9299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9304,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9299\/revisions\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}