{"id":1292,"date":"2012-08-13T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T15:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookenvy.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2013-05-09T17:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T17:47:37","slug":"ebook-industry-headlines-13-aug-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/ebook-industry-headlines-13-aug-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"eBook industry headlines &#8211; 13 Aug 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I went through my news feeds this morning, these headlines caught my eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/google-to-fight-ebook-piracy-with-major-search-engine-shakeup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google&#8217;s contribution to the fight against eBook piracy with a search engine algorithm update.<\/a> (goodereader.com)<\/li>\n<li>A design and marketing firm, with the odd name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/prwebebookcovers\/howtopublishonkindle\/prweb9792033.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PurpleBananaBrain.com is making waves<\/a> with their innovative approach to eBook marketing. (PRWeb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/8\/11\/3236342\/ebook-lending-service-shut-down-authors-piracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lending your Kindle eBooks is not as straightforward as you might think (or want it to be).<\/a> (The Verge)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/2012\/08\/10\/smashwords-gets-more-self-published-ebooks-into-libraries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smashwords launches a new service<\/a> to get more eBooks into the libraries. (paidContent)<\/li>\n<li>Did eBooks really outsell print books on Amazon? <a href=\"http:\/\/accrispin.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/ebooks-outsell-print-putting-headlines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check the fine-print, says the \u201cWriter beware! blog\u201d<\/a>. Incidentally, the <a href=\"http:\/\/writerbeware.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WriterBeware.com<\/a> website is not a bad one to keep in your bookmarks and news reader links. (Writer Beware!)<\/li>\n<li>And speaking of lending eBooks and libraries, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/digital\/content-and-e-books\/article\/53511-ala-releases-report-on-library-e-book-business-models-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ALA (American Library Association) is responding to concerns regarding the relevancy of libraries<\/a> in the eBook era and eBook lending rights. (Publishers Weekly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I went through my news feeds this morning, these headlines caught my eye: Google&#8217;s contribution to the fight against eBook piracy with a search engine algorithm update. (goodereader.com) A design and marketing firm, with the odd name of PurpleBananaBrain.com is making waves with their innovative approach to eBook marketing. (PRWeb) Lending your Kindle eBooks is not as straightforward as you might think (or want it to be). (The Verge) Smashwords launches a new service to get more eBooks into the libraries. (paidContent) Did eBooks really outsell print books on Amazon? Check the fine-print, says the \u201cWriter beware! blog\u201d. Incidentally, the WriterBeware.com website is not a bad one to keep in your bookmarks and news reader links. (Writer Beware!) And speaking of lending eBooks and libraries, the ALA (American Library Association) is responding to concerns regarding the relevancy of libraries in the eBook era and eBook lending rights. (Publishers Weekly)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,349,350,8],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-ebooks","tag-electronic-reading-news","tag-ereading","tag-news"],"views":4686,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}