{"id":61,"date":"2018-08-03T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T09:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2018-08-03T11:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T09:55:21","slug":"online-book-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/03\/online-book-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Robinson Crusoe of the reading world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I live on the Moon. Or at least it feels like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The actual map shows that I\u2019m somewhere in Europe, but I\u2019m on the Moon according to many publishers. I can\u2019t get some titles because they are \u201cnot for sale in this country\/region\u201d. They are online titles!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I understand it when they are too lazy to spin the globe and find a country they need to deliver a physical copy to, so they just don\u2019t. But not to include a country in the list of licensed for online sales?! And then they all\u00a0go Indiana Jones fighting pirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m sure there are eloquent explanations from the world of business and publishing as to why such things can happen. I belong to neither of those worlds, so in my blissful ignorance I feel justified to say: \u201cWhat the actual \u2026?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaraHunterBooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ms. Hunter<\/a>, can you please talk to your publishers and ask them to find Montenegro on the map? I\u2019d really like to get\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2n4x7oq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Close to Home<\/em> audiobook.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Updated on 16.09.18:<\/p>\n<p>Cara Hunter replied via twitter that an author has no control over where their book will be sold. Thank you Cara for the reply.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-379\" src=\"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/screen-shot-2018-09-16-at-14-18-04.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-09-16 at 14.18.04.png\" width=\"608\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message in a bottle from the Moon where I seem to be living, at least judging by the choice many publishers make. <a href=\"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/03\/online-book-shopping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m Robinson Crusoe of the reading world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[78,81,184,185,204,236,434,474,499],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/screen-shot-2018-08-03-at-11-49-36-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}