{"id":948,"date":"2009-02-16T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T13:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=948"},"modified":"2009-02-16T08:22:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T13:22:23","slug":"freedom-for-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Freedom for millions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy President&#8217;s Day or Family Day or happy what-have-you&#8230;depending where you make your home.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s authors and readers are taking full advantage of online and digital publishing. The full story&#8217;s <a title=\"China's Online Publishing\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/SHOWBIZ\/books\/02\/15\/china.publishing\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Let&#8217;s hope the follow-up headline isn&#8217;t about their fun-free government putting more restrictions on Internet access.<\/p>\n<p>So the net&#8217;s opening doors to expression for people in less than liberal places, let&#8217;s hope writers and readers in the west maintain their freedoms as the traditional publishing industry adjusts to eBooks and online publishing. Monopolies can be as oppressive as totalitarian regimes, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=eboorumo-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=26&#038;l=ur1&#038;category=kindle&#038;banner=1VW4WBP63FJN3CB2ETG2&#038;f=ifr\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy President&#8217;s Day or Family Day or happy what-have-you&#8230;depending where you make your home. China&#8217;s authors and readers are taking full advantage of online and digital publishing. The full story&#8217;s here. Let&#8217;s hope the follow-up headline isn&#8217;t about their fun-free government putting more restrictions on Internet access. So the net&#8217;s opening doors to expression for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=948\">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":[5,9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}