{"id":18463,"date":"2017-11-29T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18463"},"modified":"2017-11-29T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:08:43","slug":"amazon-tightens-control-on-indie-authors-at-goodreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18463","title":{"rendered":"Amazon tightens control on Indie authors at GoodReads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/29\/16714972\/goodreads-giveaways-program-changing-standard-premium-tiers-authors\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a> writes about changes to <strong>GoodReads<\/strong> that tip the &#8220;level playing field&#8221; farther away from Indie authors. And it looks like a cash-grab by <strong>GoodReads-owner Amazon.\u00a0<\/strong>The Wannabe online eBook monopoly is trying to wring a few more bucks out of struggling authors by making them pay into a &#8220;tiered&#8221; advertising system.<\/p>\n<p>So much for democratized publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verge writes about changes to GoodReads that tip the &#8220;level playing field&#8221; farther away from Indie authors. And it looks like a cash-grab by GoodReads-owner Amazon.\u00a0The Wannabe online eBook monopoly is trying to wring a few more bucks out of struggling authors by making them pay into a &#8220;tiered&#8221; advertising system. So much for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18463\">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":[3,11,4,5,8,25,15,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18463"}],"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=18463"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18469,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18463\/revisions\/18469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}