{"id":359,"date":"2010-03-02T12:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T18:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=359"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:39:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:39:33","slug":"will-kindle-light-a-fire-under-updike-novel-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/03\/02\/will-kindle-light-a-fire-under-updike-novel-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Kindle light a fire under Updike novel sales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/03\/picture-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-360\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/03\/picture-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a>The Associated Press and Best Ebook Reviews reported that Random House is adding 7000 additional ebooks to its e-catalog over the next few months. Though ebooks count for fewer than a 1 percent market share of total book sales, Random House ebook sales have experienced a triple-digit percent increase since the Amazon.com Kindle reader was introduced. Typical Kindle editions sell for $9.00, and Random House specifically said that John Updike&#8217;s novels will be among those digitalized in this new wave of ebooks. For more information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/bestebookreadersreviews.com\/71\/ebook\/kindle-reader-impact-random-house-ebook-sales-increase-over-100\/\">&#8220;Kindle Reader Impact&#8211;Random House ebook sales increase over 100%,&#8221;<\/a> and thanks to Jack De Bellis for drawing it to our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press and Best Ebook Reviews reported that Random House is adding 7000 additional ebooks to its e-catalog over the next few months. Though ebooks count for fewer than a 1 percent market share of total book sales, Random &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/03\/02\/will-kindle-light-a-fire-under-updike-novel-sales\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}