{"id":2644,"date":"2012-04-11T20:02:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T01:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:53","slug":"amazons-1-million-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/11\/amazons-1-million-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s $1 million secret&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/08\/amazons_1_million_slush_fund\/singleton\/#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/money_books-460x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, much of the literary world is in full-throated revolt against Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dominance \u00e2\u20ac\u201d bookstores fear Amazon will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/29\/business\/barnes-noble-taking-on-amazon-in-the-fight-of-its-life.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techflash.com\/seattle\/2011\/12\/independent-bookstores-upset-with.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">them<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.time.com\/2011\/12\/08\/amazons-evil-price-check-app-kicking-bookstores-while-theyre-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2011\/10\/12\/america-s-greatest-independent-bookstores-and-why-they-should-survive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/11\/resolved_kick_the_amazon_habit_in_2012\/singleton\/\">business<\/a>, authors worry about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/13\/opinion\/amazons-jungle-logic.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deep<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/03\/13\/scott_turow_on_why_we_should_fear_amazon\/\">discounting<\/a>, and the Department of Justice is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-04-04\/doj-said-near-e-book-pricing-settlement-with-publishers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considering<\/a> the major publishers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 challenge over the price of e-books. But amid the public and private rancor, the massive e-retailer is very quietly trying to make friends in the book world. Its strategy is simple and employs a weapon Amazon has in overwhelming supply: Money.<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn Book Festival is just one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/?&amp;node=13786431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many recent beneficiaries of Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largess.<\/a> According to a list on Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site, prestigious groups such as the PEN American Center, journals like the <a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Review of Books,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.one-story.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Story,<\/a> Poets &amp; Writers and Kenyon Review, mentorship programs such as 826 Seattle and Girls Write Now, and associations including the Lambda Literary Foundation, Voice of Witness and Words Without Borders have all received grants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/08\/amazons_1_million_slush_fund\/singleton\/#\">Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s $1 million secret &#8211; Salon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By quietly supporting small presses and literary nonprofits, is Amazon backing book culture or buying off critics?<\/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":[218,439,612,611,613],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-amazon","tag-didyouknow","tag-slushfund","tag-smallpresses","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","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=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10051,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}