{"id":396,"date":"2012-02-24T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2012\/02\/24\/why-did-amazon-pull-5000-ebooks-off-the-shelves\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T05:16:00","slug":"why-did-amazon-pull-5000-ebooks-off-the-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2012\/02\/24\/why-did-amazon-pull-5000-ebooks-off-the-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Amazon pull 5000 ebooks off the shelves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been some fuss about Amazon pulling 5000 titles. In fact, the Gizmodo article barely explains anything beyond that, noting in two terse and profoundly unilluminating sentences:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Almost 5,000 eBooks have been pulled from the the Kindle Store because of a change made to Independent Publishers Group&#8217;s contract with the online seller. The move is a result of Amazon&#8217;s demand for upfront payment from publishers, required to host their books on the store. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But what is really behind this? <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-why-amazons-kindle-battle-with-ipg-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon is eliminating intermediaries<\/a>. IPG represents many small publishers. Amazon, apparently, would rather work directly with these publishers, or even with the authors themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been some fuss about Amazon pulling 5000 titles. In fact, the Gizmodo article barely explains anything beyond that, noting in two terse and profoundly unilluminating sentences: Almost 5,000 eBooks have been pulled from the the Kindle Store because of a change made to Independent Publishers Group&#8217;s contract with the online seller. The move is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}