{"id":357,"date":"2012-02-28T20:32:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T01:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=357"},"modified":"2012-02-28T20:32:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T01:32:47","slug":"oh-amazon-really-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Amazon, Really Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suppose if I were an enormous entity, growing all the time and convinced I was poised to transform my industry, I might start thinking I could just roll over anyone I wanted to.\u00a0 And once I started thinking that I might start thinking the best way to handle any conflict was to just throw my massive weight around and crush anyone who had the gall to oppose me.\u00a0 But is really wise for Amazon to once again go running around throwing a hissy fit and yanking books because someone who has a disagreement with them?<\/a>\u00a0 Sooner or later, everyone else who has dealings with Amazon might just start wondering when it will happen to them.\u00a0 Amazon is gearing up to be big in doing their own publishing, but do they really want to alienate every other publisher just to simplify things?<\/p>\n

Of course, long-time readers will remember when I was griping about Amazon acting all passive-aggressive rather than like Galactus<\/a>.\u00a0 But remember, that was really more of a “tsk tsk” kind of post.\u00a0 I really do prefer that sort of thing to this, only because it isn’t so ridiculously author-hostile.\u00a0 The problem is, not only is Amazon huge, but books are only a chunk of what they do.\u00a0 It makes perfect sense for them to burn a little money now to make more later, and it makes perfect sense, from their point of view, to use authors like pawns if gives them a shot at knocking out a publisher or whatnot who might get in their way.\u00a0 But for obvious reasons I’m less than sympathetic with that view.\u00a0 I don’t think Amazon is trying<\/em> to hurt authors.\u00a0 I don’t think they are even really thinking about authors.\u00a0 Which is sort of the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suppose if I were an enormous entity, growing all the time and convinced I was poised to transform my industry, I might start thinking I could just roll over anyone I wanted to.\u00a0 And once I started thinking that I might start thinking the best way to handle any conflict was to just throw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}