{"id":5421,"date":"2013-07-30T20:59:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T00:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2013-07-30T20:59:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T00:59:26","slug":"amazons-place-in-the-publishing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5421","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is Not a Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe Amazon is engaged in a price war, but maybe it&#8217;s just taking advantage of publishing dinosaurs who don&#8217;t want to understand what different people are willing to pay for real books.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the [publishing] industry can\u2019t find a way to truly understand the new reality that has grown up around it,&#8221; writes Suw Charman-Adnerson for Forbes.com, it will never find a way to survive current and future changes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/suwcharmananderson\/2013\/07\/30\/amazon-divides-and-conquers\/\">Key to this is understanding Amazon\u2019s position<\/a> in the market and what impact its behaviour actually has.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She suggests Amazon is not sending the huntsman to cut the heart out of brick-and-mortar stores, but is merely playing its part in a real market. For more common sense on the real book market, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurebook.net\/content\/amazon-wages-war-against-everybody-not-just-publishing\">see this post on Futurebook.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe Amazon is engaged in a price war, but maybe it&#8217;s just taking advantage of publishing dinosaurs who don&#8217;t want to understand what different people are willing to pay for real books. &#8220;If the [publishing] industry can\u2019t find a way to truly understand the new reality that has grown up around it,&#8221; writes Suw Charman-Adnerson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon is Not a Witch<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-publishing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}