{"id":1499,"date":"2009-04-16T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2009-04-14T21:09:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T04:09:42","slug":"metawhat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/metawhat\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaWhat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed the Amazon brouhaha over the long weekend, you can read about it here<\/a>. The Twitter nation got involved, and Dear Author<\/a> also raised a commotion. A little entity called The New York Times<\/a> chimed in, too.<\/p>\n

Penny’s books<\/a> were affected, although they’re appearing again\u00a0now<\/a>, sales ranking intact. (Hint, the first link leads to Penny’s first book, the second link to the second). If you’d like to increase Penny’s sales ranking in protest against the “glitch,” be my guest! (Hint, purchasing the volumes increases the rankings).<\/p>\n

Frankly, the entire episode ranked. However, for many book buyers (like those who live in the boonies), Amazon and entities like it are the only option. Yeah, there’s Barnes and Noble…if you’re American. In Canada, we have Chapters<\/a> and Amazon.ca. I order from Chapters when I can, but they don’t have as big a selection as Amazon.ca. Chapters doesn’t carry Penny’s books. Neither Chapters nor Amazon.ca carries my<\/em> books<\/a>. If you want the paperbacks, Amazon State-side is the only game in town.<\/p>\n

What do you think about the brouhaha? Did you buy the “glitch”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed the Amazon brouhaha over the long weekend, you can read about it here. The Twitter nation got involved, and Dear Author also raised a commotion. A little entity called The New York Times chimed in, too. Penny’s books were affected, although they’re appearing again\u00a0now, sales ranking intact. (Hint, the first link… Continue reading MetaWhat?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-my-books","category-popular-culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}