{"id":642,"date":"2016-02-14T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T18:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2016-05-12T02:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T09:12:12","slug":"musings-on-the-amazon-book-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/14\/musings-on-the-amazon-book-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings on The Amazon Book Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I recently visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=13270229011\">Amazon book store<\/a>, currently the only one in existence. I came away with mixed feelings. The best part is that the prices are the same in the store as online. Other than that though, there&#8217;s not much good to say about it. It&#8217;s small, the shelves are much too close together making the entire store feel uncomfortably crowded. The worst part is that it&#8217;s stocked only with the best selling and highest rated books on Amazon. This results in a very shallow selection picked purely by popularity. Your chances of discovering a forgotten treasure are next to nothing. We left and went from there to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdplacebooks.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Third Place Books<\/span><\/a>. It was a breath of fresh air. As nice is it is to pay less, I&#8217;ll stick bookstores like Third Place or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Ateneo_Grand_Splendid\"><span class=\"s3\">El Ateneo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0when I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dressbridal.uk\/prom-dresses\">shopping <\/a>IRL.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently visited the Amazon book store, currently the only one in existence. I came away with mixed feelings. The best part is that the prices are the same in the store as online. Other than that though, there&#8217;s not much good to say about it. It&#8217;s small, the shelves are much too close together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-etc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-am","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}