{"id":6897,"date":"2026-04-23T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6897"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:01:52","slug":"the-ebook-hard-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6897","title":{"rendered":"The Ebook Hard Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This, I think, is how the capitalists are going to force more widespread adoption of ebooks (which are otherwise a <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=6606\">questionable value proposition<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-08.47.21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"851\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-08.47.21-1024x851.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-08.47.21-1024x851.png 1024w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-08.47.21-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-08.47.21-768x638.png 768w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-at-08.47.21.png 1356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They will, in other words, deliberately under-produce (or, better yet, not produce at all) real paper books, books that give one the full right of ownership. Then, when customers understandably shy away from buying artificially scarce items at artificially inflated prices, announce that &#8220;the market has spoken&#8221; and there is no longer significant &#8220;customer interest&#8221; in traditional paper books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, I think, is how the capitalists are going to force more widespread adoption of ebooks (which are otherwise a questionable value proposition): They will, in other words, deliberately under-produce (or, better yet, not produce at all) real paper books, books that give one the full right of ownership. Then, when customers understandably shy away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalist-scum","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6906,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897\/revisions\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}