{"id":2473,"date":"2012-02-09T16:03:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:56","slug":"its-time-for-a-unified-ebook-format-and-the-end-of-drm-oreilly-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/09\/its-time-for-a-unified-ebook-format-and-the-end-of-drm-oreilly-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time for a unified ebook format and the end of DRM &#8211; O&#8217;Reilly Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2012\/02\/unified-ebook-format-end-drm.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+oreilly%2Fradar%2Fatom+%28O%27Reilly+Radar%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/0212-unified-ebook-format.png' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine buying a car that locks you into one brand of fuel. A new BMW, for example, that only runs on BMW gas. There are plenty of BMW gas stations around, even a few in your neighborhood, so convenience isn&#8217;t an issue. But if one of those other gas stations offers a discount, a membership program, or some other attractive marketing campaign, you can&#8217;t participate. You&#8217;re locked in with the BMW gas stations.<\/p>\n<p>This could never happen, right? Consumers are too smart to buy into something like this. Or are they? After all, isn&#8217;t that exactly what&#8217;s happening in the ebook world?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2012\/02\/unified-ebook-format-end-drm.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+oreilly%2Fradar%2Fatom+%28O%27Reilly+Radar%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">It&#8217;s time for a unified ebook format and the end of DRM &#8211; O&#8217;Reilly Radar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine buying a car that locks you into one brand of fuel. A new BMW, for example, that only runs on BMW gas. There are plenty of BMW gas stations around, even a few in your neighborhood, so convenience isn&#8217;t an issue. But if one of those other gas stations offers a discount, a membership &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/09\/its-time-for-a-unified-ebook-format-and-the-end-of-drm-oreilly-radar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s time for a unified ebook format and the end of DRM &#8211; O&#8217;Reilly Radar<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,565,81],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-ebooks","tag-format","tag-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}