{"id":44,"date":"2005-01-12T20:14:32","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T20:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2005-01-12T20:14:32","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T20:14:32","slug":"top_selling_ebooks_of_2004_ann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/12\/top_selling_ebooks_of_2004_ann\/","title":{"rendered":"top selling ebooks of 2004 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OeBindexLogo.gif\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/OeBindexLogo.gif\" width=\"222\" height=\"95\" align=\"right\"\/> Though still tiny, the ebook industry has been growing steadily since everyone pronounced its stillbirth a few years back. But right now it pretty much tracks the print figures &#8211; a faint, crackling aura around the print goliath. Pretty predictable stuff. I say it&#8217;s time for something new, for something born digital, to occur&#8230;<br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openebook.org\/\">The Open eBook Forum (OeBF)<\/a><\/b> announced the bestselling electronic titles of 2004 (<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/mw\/release_html_b1?release_id=78879\">press release<\/a><\/b>) and reported double digit growth for the fledgling industry. Sci-fi, reference books, and the work of Dan Brown (who holds places 1 through 4) figure prominently on the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openebook.org\/bestseller\/year04.htm\">top 30 list<\/a><\/b>, along with a smattering of other print bestsellers. <i>(yawn)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though still tiny, the ebook industry has been growing steadily since everyone pronounced its stillbirth a few years back. But right now it pretty much tracks the print figures &#8211; a faint, crackling aura around the print goliath. Pretty predictable stuff. I say it&#8217;s time for something new, for something born digital, to occur&#8230; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}