{"id":18193,"date":"2017-08-10T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18193"},"modified":"2017-08-10T11:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:11:02","slug":"smart-indies-avoid-kindle-unlimited-to-support-ebook-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18193","title":{"rendered":"Smart Indies avoid Kindle Unlimited to support eBook competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/indie-author-news\/bookselling-2017-whats-amazon-up-to\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> story suggests <strong>Amazon<\/strong> is pushing its own imprint titles over <strong>legacy<\/strong> and <strong>Indie publishers<\/strong>. Surprised? That&#8217;s what <strong>wannabe<\/strong> monopolies do.<\/p>\n<p>All we can do is breathe a sigh of relief that some independent writers and publishers refused the\u00a0<strong>Kindle Unlimited Kool-Aid<\/strong> to support other eBook sales platforms and encourage a free, competitive marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GoodeReader story suggests Amazon is pushing its own imprint titles over legacy and Indie publishers. Surprised? That&#8217;s what wannabe monopolies do. All we can do is breathe a sigh of relief that some independent writers and publishers refused the\u00a0Kindle Unlimited Kool-Aid to support other eBook sales platforms and encourage a free, competitive marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,4,5,8,12,14,16,13,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193"}],"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=18193"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18200,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193\/revisions\/18200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}