{"id":1711,"date":"2010-11-01T10:07:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T15:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:38","slug":"amazon-as-predatory-and-thuggish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/01\/amazon-as-predatory-and-thuggish\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153predatory and thuggish&#8230;&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1713\" href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/01\/amazon-as-%e2%80%9cpredatory-and-thuggish\/melville-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1713\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/melville1-300x44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/melville1-300x44.png 300w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/melville1-150x22.png 150w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/melville1.png 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melville House (an indy publisher) has withdrawn from future participation in the <strong>Best Translated Book Awards<\/strong> citing Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=19203\">predatory and thuggish practices&#8230;<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Big news, and worth noting, considering this house publishes more in translation than Knopf or Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2010\/10\/melville-house-withdraws-from-amazons-best-translated-book-awards.html\">The Millions<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melville House (an indy publisher) has withdrawn from future participation in the Best Translated Book Awards citing Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153predatory and thuggish practices&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Big news, and worth noting, considering this house publishes more in translation than Knopf or Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. (via The Millions)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[218,217,220,219,137],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-information","tag-amazon","tag-melvillehouse","tag-publishers","tag-publishing","tag-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10214,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/10214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}