{"id":9921,"date":"2011-11-27T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9921"},"modified":"2011-11-27T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T13:25:13","slug":"indie-authors-warned-avoid-book-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9921","title":{"rendered":"Indie authors warned: Avoid Book Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago we mentioned <a title=\"Book Country at Penguin USA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9851\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Book Country<\/strong><\/a> at <strong>Penguin USA<\/strong>, and were justifiably reluctant to climb aboard a &#8216;pay-to-play&#8217; eBook publishing service in a marketplace that offers many free and potentially lucrative opportunities (like <strong>Amazon Kindle Publishing<\/strong> and <strong>Smashwords<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>A reader sent us this sidebar to the story: <strong>Lee Goldberg&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;<a title=\"Sucker Country\" href=\"http:\/\/leegoldberg.typepad.com\/a_writers_life\/2011\/11\/sucker-country.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Sucker Country<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; at <strong>A Writer&#8217;s Life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago we mentioned Book Country at Penguin USA, and were justifiably reluctant to climb aboard a &#8216;pay-to-play&#8217; eBook publishing service in a marketplace that offers many free and potentially lucrative opportunities (like Amazon Kindle Publishing and Smashwords). A reader sent us this sidebar to the story: Lee Goldberg&#8217;s &#8220;Sucker Country&#8221; at A Writer&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9921\">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":[3,5,8,15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921"}],"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=9921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9925,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions\/9925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}