{"id":2152,"date":"2012-10-12T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T16:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2012-10-12T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T16:44:55","slug":"paperback-available-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2152","title":{"rendered":"Paperback Available Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick announcement: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1477699805\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1477699805&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=shannphill-20\">paperback version<\/a> of my book is up on Amazon now. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had people ask if there will be a hardcover version, and the short answer is &#8220;no.&#8221; The profit margins on hardcovers are too slim for POD; Amazon won&#8217;t sell them. They will allow <em>me<\/em> to special-order hardcovers if I want to, but there&#8217;s a $99 &#8220;setup fee&#8221; for this service, on top of which the per-book cost is quite high. So no, there won&#8217;t be hardcovers&#8212;but my family members can all expect to get copies of the paperback with their Christmas presents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick announcement: the paperback version of my book is up on Amazon now. I&#8217;ve had people ask if there will be a hardcover version, and the short answer is &#8220;no.&#8221; The profit margins on hardcovers are too slim for POD; Amazon won&#8217;t sell them. They will allow me to special-order hardcovers if I want to, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}