{"id":5625,"date":"2010-05-14T08:42:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2010-05-14T08:42:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:42:11","slug":"over-to-the-tempest-in-a-teapot-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5625","title":{"rendered":"Over to the &#8216;Tempest in a Teapot&#8217; Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or should I say &#8220;<em>eTempest in an eTeapot<\/em>.&#8221; Okay,\u00c2\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Free eBooks Get their Own List!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyfinance.com\/story\/company-news\/amazon-drops-free-e-books-from-kindle-bestseller-list\/19475129\/\" target=\"_self\">DailyFinance<\/a><\/strong> posted an article about Amazon&#8217;s decision to take Free eBooks off their best-seller list. It seems that free eBooks have been crowding up the top spots that would otherwise be occupied by paid titles.\u00c2\u00a0 They will now have two separate lists: Best Selling <em>Paid<\/em> eBooks versus most popular downloaded <em>Free<\/em> eBook .<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe the amount of chatter about this relative &#8216;no-brainer.&#8217; Wasn&#8217;t it just\u00c2\u00a0a matter of time before they had to do something?\u00c2\u00a0 Seems to me it\u00c2\u00a0 will make the ranking more sensible and convenient for readers, authors, and publishers .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or should I say &#8220;eTempest in an eTeapot.&#8221; Okay,\u00c2\u00a0DailyFinance posted an article about Amazon&#8217;s decision to take Free eBooks off their best-seller list. It seems that free eBooks have been crowding up the top spots that would otherwise be occupied by paid titles.\u00c2\u00a0 They will now have two separate lists: Best Selling Paid eBooks versus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5625\">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":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625"}],"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=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5637,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}