{"id":4761,"date":"2012-04-30T18:13:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T23:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2016-06-10T14:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:43:59","slug":"navigating-a-tightrope-with-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/navigating-a-tightrope-with-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating a Tightrope With Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/30\/business\/media\/byliner-takes-buzz-bissingers-e-book-off-amazon.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=print\">David Carr<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronista.com\/articles\/12\/04\/30\/bissinger.hurt.by.apple.amazon.no.lower.price.war\/\">MacNN<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/30\/business\/media\/byliner-takes-buzz-bissingers-e-book-off-amazon.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=print\"><p>But the plan hit a pothole after Apple, which had been looking to get into shorter works in a digital format, decided to include e-books in a promotion that it does with Starbucks. It selected Mr. Bissinger&rsquo;s digital sequel as a Pick of the Week, giving customers a code they could redeem online for the book. (Mr. Bissinger said he still received a royalty of $1.50 for each copy sold.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Amazon interpreted the promotion as a price drop and lowered its price for &ldquo;After Friday Night Lights&rdquo; to exactly zero. Byliner withdrew the book from Amazon&rsquo;s shelves, saying it did so to &ldquo;protect our authors&rsquo; interest.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>The automatic price drop was because Amazon requires that publishers let them sell e-books for the lowest available price.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Carr (via MacNN): But the plan hit a pothole after Apple, which had been looking to get into shorter works in a digital format, decided to include e-books in a promotion that it does with Starbucks. It selected Mr. Bissinger&rsquo;s digital sequel as a Pick of the Week, giving customers a code they could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14791,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/14791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}