{"id":4316,"date":"2014-04-14T17:44:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T22:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2014-04-14T17:44:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T22:44:48","slug":"soon-amazon-will-be-invincible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"Soon Amazon Will Be Invincible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a bit surprised to learn that <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/10\/amazon-buys-comixology\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0\">Amazon has purchased digital comics purveyor Comixology<\/a>. I now purchase most of my comics via Comixology and I hope this takeover leads to some much-needed improvements for the site, such as a more refined search function and a more intuitive way to organize the comics I have already purchased. Amazon has a reputation for not mucking up the companies it purchases (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/\">Audible<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zappos.com\/\">Zappos<\/a>), which could be good news for Comixology and its customers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to see more competitors enter the market, but few companies will be eager to contend with a behemoth like Amazon. Publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/\">Dark Horse<\/a> has its own digital storefront, but it&#8217;s a bit of a mess and I think I would prefer that they simply make their titles available through Comixology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a bit surprised to learn that Amazon has purchased digital comics purveyor Comixology. I now purchase most of my comics via Comixology and I hope this takeover leads to some much-needed improvements for the site, such as a more refined search function and a more intuitive way to organize the comics I have <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4316' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-tech","category-22-id","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-17C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}