{"id":1625,"date":"2008-06-11T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T11:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2008-06-13T19:17:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T18:17:33","slug":"market-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Market failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>or possibly Amazon failure. I was putting the world&#8217;s smallest and most discreet book-buying link into the sidebar right now (obviously it would be wrong to link to it here) and thought that I might as well point the links to my earlier books through the Amazon associates programme. This used to be simple but now involves the use of complex urls with web bugs and all kinds of stuff, so I gave up for a while. This led me to the Darwin Wars page on Amazon UK, where I learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#38;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FDarwin-Wars-Scientific-Battle-Soul%2Fdp%2F0743203437%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1213181192%26sr%3D8-2&#38;tag=andrewbrownssite&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1634&#38;creative=6738\">second hand copies of the paperback <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=andrewbrownssite&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>are now going for upwards of &#163;55. That&#8217;s crazy. If I sold mine, if I have any, I could make more like that than I ever did in royalties. What makes it even crazier is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#38;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FDarwin-Wars-Scientific-Battle-Soul%2Fdp%2F068485144X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1213181192%26sr%3D8-1&#38;tag=andrewbrownssite&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1634&#38;creative=6738\">second-hand hardbacks<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=andrewbrownssite&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> are only &#163;3.00. Of course, it is possible that Amazon, or someone, has swapped the listings round. But, even so. <span class=\"caps\">FIFTY FIVE POUNDS<\/span>.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>or possibly Amazon failure. I was putting the world&#8217;s smallest and most discreet book-buying link into the sidebar right now (obviously it would be wrong to link to it here) and thought that I might as well point the links &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1625\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}