{"id":10606,"date":"2006-02-03T07:15:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T12:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/03\/amazoncom-ouch\/"},"modified":"2006-02-03T07:15:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T12:15:29","slug":"amazoncom-ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/03\/amazoncom-ouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon.com. Ouch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a dabbler in online booksales, I can&#8217;t say <a href='http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,183616,00.html'>Amazon.com&#8217;s recent stumble<\/a> is a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, when people thought books ( new or used ) online, they thought ABE, Amazon or Alibris. Now there&#8217;s a dozen new and used book exchanges. Good news for buyers, and a great opportunity for sellers who spread their listings across multiple exchanges. However, the shift in the marketplace means something else for the individual sites: less buyers.<\/p>\n<p>Better luck next quarter, Amazon.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a dabbler in online booksales, I can&#8217;t say Amazon.com&#8217;s recent stumble is a surprise. Four years ago, when people thought books ( new or used ) online, they thought ABE, Amazon or Alibris. Now there&#8217;s a dozen new and used book exchanges. Good news for buyers, and a great opportunity for sellers who spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}