{"id":17905,"date":"2017-03-31T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17905"},"modified":"2017-03-31T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:57:11","slug":"amazon-bribes-indie-authors-to-prop-up-failing-kindle-unlimited-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17905","title":{"rendered":"Amazon bribes Indie authors to prop up failing Kindle Unlimited library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/digital-publishing\/new-prime-reading-offer-asks-authors-to-give-up-royalties\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> posted a story that shows <strong>Amazon is determined to undermine<\/strong> <strong>its<\/strong> own <strong>relevance<\/strong> to the eBook Revolution by bribing\u00a0Indie authors to sell off their royalties on the cheap<strong> to<\/strong> help<strong> prop up the faltering\u00a0Kindle Unlimited library<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Never content to just support and sell quality eBooks at affordable prices, Amazon comes up with yet more bells, whistles and distractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoodeReader posted a story that shows Amazon is determined to undermine its own relevance to the eBook Revolution by bribing\u00a0Indie authors to sell off their royalties on the cheap to help prop up the faltering\u00a0Kindle Unlimited library. Never content to just support and sell quality eBooks at affordable prices, Amazon comes up with yet more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17905\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,4,5,8,25,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17910,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions\/17910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}