{"id":22,"date":"2005-02-19T07:12:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T07:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/02\/19\/whats-up-with-books-on-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2005-02-19T07:12:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T07:12:22","slug":"whats-up-with-books-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/02\/19\/whats-up-with-books-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s up with books on the Internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-22\">\n<div><font face=\"Helvetica\">Seems like Amazon is winning the<br \/>\nbattle&#8230;.<\/font><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Helvetica\">I went looking for the Borders web site &#8211; its now<br \/>\nhosted by Amazon.  Then I tried Waterstones, and they too are hosted by Amazon.<br \/>\nHas anyone else noticed that Amazon seems to be insourcing web sites for<br \/>\ncompeting book stores?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Helvetica\">Will this<br \/>\ndecrease innovation in book selling on the Internet over the long term?  It must<br \/>\nbe saving Borders and Waterstones money to have Amazon build and run their site<br \/>\n&#8211; I wonder what the fee structure is for Amazon?<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-22\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 22);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-22\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-22\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like Amazon is winning the battle&#8230;. Translate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}