{"id":248,"date":"2021-06-12T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2021-06-12T14:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T18:58:43","slug":"recommendation-for-a-company-that-wishes-to-take-on-the-galactic-empire-of-amazon-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Recommendation for a company that wishes to take on the galactic empire of Amazon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookshop.org\">Bookshop.org <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all you need to know. If you buy a book from them, the affiliated bookstore will receive 30% of the cover price. That&#8217;s far more than Amazon pays. (Amazon takes a cut of everything, from self-published authors, to traditional publishers, to people selling toothpaste or weird doo-hickies that go into your windowshades.) Bookshop.org also donates, every six months, among all it&#8217;s affiliated bookstores, money to help them keep going. So far they&#8217;ve donated more than $14 million dollars. Amazon donates nothing. They take a little longer. They don&#8217;t have free shipping like Amazon prime. But they support local bookstores and they even have a map of local bookstores near you that you can direct your indirect donations to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookshop.org That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all you need to know. If you buy a book from them, the affiliated bookstore will receive 30% of the cover price. That&#8217;s far more than Amazon pays. (Amazon takes a cut of everything, from self-published &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/?p=248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomasfcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}