{"id":135,"date":"2016-05-23T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/books\/?p=135"},"modified":"2016-05-23T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:08:36","slug":"zeit-der-ebooks-schon-vorbei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/2016\/05\/23\/zeit-der-ebooks-schon-vorbei\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it time for eBooks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, ebooks were predicted to have a great future and hoped to save the industry. Meanwhile, disillusionment spreads. In November 2014 we were able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerbase.de\/2014-11\/e-book-verkaeufe-in-den-usa-stark-ruecklaeufig\/\" target=\"_blank\">read<\/a>, eBook sales in the U.S. are down sharply. Straight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/Waterstones-Groesster-britischer-Buchhaendler-verabschiedet-sich-vom-E-Book-3215254.html\" target=\"_blank\">I read<\/a>, that the British bookseller Waterstone\u2019s discontinues the sale of eBooks. It seems that only a few major providers like Amazon are left \u2013 and their sales are not exactly intoxicating either.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, ebooks were predicted to have a great future and hoped to save the industry. Meanwhile, disillusionment spreads. As early as November 2014, you could read that eBook sales in the United States were declining sharply. I'm currently reading, \u2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/2016\/05\/23\/zeit-der-ebooks-schon-vorbei\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,28],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-ebook","tag-verkaeufe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}