{"id":12660,"date":"2011-08-17T20:31:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T01:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/?p=12660"},"modified":"2011-08-17T20:31:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T01:31:54","slug":"amazon-to-ny-oh-its-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/17\/amazon-to-ny-oh-its-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to NY: Oh, it&#8217;s on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After clicking the last brick into place, Amazon.com now has made its intentions to become the largest book publisher walking the earth clear. That&#8217;s a presumptive assertion, perhaps, but consider a few facts about Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>First, Amazon is already the largest e-tailer in the world. As of byproduct of being the biggest, they maintain the largest known mailing list of book buyers and the buying patterns of these readers&#8211;be they frequent and occasional. Through the Encore program Amazon culls self-published authors who sell well on Kindle and then re-release titles on hardcover, complete with a marketing campaign and professional reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Today Amazon game ratchets the game up a notch. <a href=\" http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3rkqtg4\">Amazon just signed a best selling author<\/a>&#8211;away from Crown Publishing, a division of Random House. Like other authors Amazon backs, his new title will appear on hardcover, e-book and paperback.<\/p>\n<p>But now for the first time, Amazon will also push an author&#8217;s wares into bookstores. With the arrival of Tim Ferriss, it&#8217;s clear Amazon anticipates big sales online and at the register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After clicking the last brick into place, Amazon.com now has made its intentions to become the largest book publisher walking the earth clear. That&#8217;s a presumptive assertion, perhaps, but consider a few facts about Amazon. First, Amazon is already the largest e-tailer in the world. As of byproduct of being the biggest, they maintain the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660","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=12660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12661,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions\/12661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}