{"id":8256,"date":"2013-02-13T17:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=8256"},"modified":"2013-02-13T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:45:39","slug":"inkling-free-for-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/inkling-free-for-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"Inkling free for academics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inkling.com\/habitat\/learn-more\">Inkling<\/a> is making its $30m digital publishing platform, Habitat, available free to everyone. There&#8217;s even a special academic version, with tight Google Search integration.  Inkling takes a 30 percent cut of each sale via the Inkling store, but waives that if you&#8217;re a bona fide academic.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Inkling is going free in order to compete with Amazon &mdash; Inkling only has around 400 titles in its store and so obviously needs more if it&#8217;s going to match Amazon.  Might be worth a look if you need to create ePub and HTML5 publications with&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;interactive e-books with HD video, interactive features and 3D content&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The drawback seems to be that the DRM sounds ferocious, and there&#8217;s no mention in the FAQ of the ability to produce a DRM-free ePub.  Which seems to imply that you get locked into Inkling as your sole distribution system?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inkling is making its $30m digital publishing platform, Habitat, available free to everyone. There&#8217;s even a special academic version, with &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/inkling-free-for-academics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}