{"id":8657,"date":"2011-05-17T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8657"},"modified":"2011-05-17T13:20:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:20:48","slug":"are-barnes-noble-and-amazon-poised-to-pillage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8657","title":{"rendered":"Are Barnes &#038; Noble and Amazon poised to pillage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Book Giants Carve up the Vanquished\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/long-ideas\/11\/05\/1087643\/rivals-to-allies-is-amazon-the-secret-bidder-for-borders-amzn\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Benzinga.com<\/strong><\/a> has an interesting post about <strong>Borders <\/strong>heading into bankruptcy proceedings with both <strong>Barnes &amp; Noble<\/strong> and <strong>Amazon.com<\/strong> on the sidelines apparently getting their early bids in on the former book giant&#8217;s bricks and mortar assets.<\/p>\n<p>Such an acquisition might be a tempting addition to <strong>Barnes and Noble&#8217;s<\/strong> string of locations, but is a step into the real world a good fit for <strong>Amazon<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benzinga.com has an interesting post about Borders heading into bankruptcy proceedings with both Barnes &amp; Noble and Amazon.com on the sidelines apparently getting their early bids in on the former book giant&#8217;s bricks and mortar assets. Such an acquisition might be a tempting addition to Barnes and Noble&#8217;s string of locations, but is a step &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8657\">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":[3,11,4,5,8,15,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657"}],"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=8657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}