{"id":2136,"date":"2011-06-27T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:04","slug":"spam-clogging-amazons-kindle-self-publishing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/27\/spam-clogging-amazons-kindle-self-publishing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam clogging Amazon&#8217;s Kindle self-publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc&#8217;s publishing foray.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of digital books, called ebooks, are being published through Amazon&#8217;s self-publishing system each month. Many are not written in the traditional sense.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they are built using something known as Private Label Rights, or PLR content, which is information that can be bought very cheaply online then reformatted into a digital book.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/06\/16\/us-amazon-kindle-spam-idUSTRE75F68620110616\">Spam clogging Amazon&#8217;s Kindle self-publishing | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc&#8217;s publishing foray. Thousands of digital books, called ebooks, are being published through Amazon&#8217;s self-publishing system each month. Many are not written in the traditional sense. Instead, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/27\/spam-clogging-amazons-kindle-self-publishing-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spam clogging Amazon&#8217;s Kindle self-publishing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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],"tags":[218,95,335,445],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-amazon","tag-ebooks","tag-kindle","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","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=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10122,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/10122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}