{"id":18279,"date":"2017-09-20T15:20:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18279"},"modified":"2017-09-20T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:21:24","slug":"amazon-games-publishingpublishing-games-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18279","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Games Publishing\/Publishing Games Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1077996\/self-publishing-on-amazon-amzn-how-an-author-can-hack-a-books-success-sales-and-royalties\/\"><strong>Quartz<\/strong><\/a> writes about how some <strong>criminals<\/strong>, &#8220;<strong>authors<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>publishers<\/strong>&#8221; have<strong>\u00a0scammed Amazon&#8217;s Indie publishing system <\/strong>by\u00a0providing\u00a0fake reviews, fake reads and fake statistics. All so that Amazon does not have to just sell you an eBook outright and pay the author a fair royalty.<\/p>\n<p>A proprietary system like Amazon Kindle&#8217;s that attempts to control the reader and the author by selling you rights to <em>read<\/em> an eBook rather than <em>sell it to you<\/em> deserves to be gamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quartz writes about how some criminals, &#8220;authors&#8221; and &#8220;publishers&#8221; have\u00a0scammed Amazon&#8217;s Indie publishing system by\u00a0providing\u00a0fake reviews, fake reads and fake statistics. All so that Amazon does not have to just sell you an eBook outright and pay the author a fair royalty. A proprietary system like Amazon Kindle&#8217;s that attempts to control the reader and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18279\">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":[3,11,4,5,8,6,25,15,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279"}],"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=18279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18284,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279\/revisions\/18284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}