{"id":9966,"date":"2011-12-05T12:50:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2011-12-05T12:50:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T17:50:56","slug":"publishers-must-adapt-or-become-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9966","title":{"rendered":"Publishers must adapt or become irrelevant."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"eBook Revolution adapt or die.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technobuffalo.com\/news\/publishers-try-to-adapt-as-digital-revolution-grows\/\" target=\"_self\">TechnoBuffalo<\/a><\/strong> gives us an update on the <strong>eBook Revolution&#8217;s<\/strong> impact on the publishing status quo. The publishers cite concerns over retailers selling eBooks to readers without the publisher as part of the deal. This wouldn&#8217;t have been the same concern if the publishers had embraced the revolution at its start.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they fought the flow in an attempt to hang onto their monopolies. Now they&#8217;re trying to take control of it, even as they should be making themselves relevant. It certainly signals interesting times ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechnoBuffalo gives us an update on the eBook Revolution&#8217;s impact on the publishing status quo. The publishers cite concerns over retailers selling eBooks to readers without the publisher as part of the deal. This wouldn&#8217;t have been the same concern if the publishers had embraced the revolution at its start. Instead, they fought the flow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9966\">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":[7,3,4,5,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966"}],"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=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9970,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions\/9970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}