{"id":1513,"date":"2009-12-24T20:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T03:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2009-12-24T20:59:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T03:59:44","slug":"wtf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/2009\/12\/24\/wtf-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something very odd is going on. I’ve just been adding a whole bunch of Kindle books to my book catalog (I am very good about cataloging physical books before I read them, but I was eight months behind on the e-books! Oops) when I noticed that I have at least two e-books, that I bought from Amazon, that don’t seem to be sold there anymore. One is Sharon Kay Penman’s The Sunne in Splendor<\/i>; te other is Jared Diamond’s Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Presumably Penman’s book is gone because it’s gone out of print; they’re not selling new hardbacks or paperbacks any more either. Though that’s still stupid; the whole allure of e-books is being able to keep books in ‘print’ without having to stock them.<\/p>\n

But that’s not true of Diamond’s book, which is still available in paperback. There’s a “I’d like to read this book on Kindle” request button and everything. Very strange. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something very odd is going on. I’ve just been adding a whole bunch of Kindle books to my book catalog (I am very good about cataloging physical books before I read them, but I was eight months behind on the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}