{"id":5791,"date":"2014-03-19T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2014-03-19T11:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:09:36","slug":"andrew-wylie-advises-you-pick-the-plague-over-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5791","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Wylie advises you \u201cpick the plague!\u201d over Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/andrew-wylie-advises-you-pick-the-plague-over-amazon\/\">Kirsten Reach<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the middle of a cold, dark week, is there any greater gift than a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/%22Andrew%20Wylie%22\">Andrew Wylie<\/a>? The man is tougher, more concise, and more quotable than anyone else in the industry.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Last October, Andrew Wylie gave an interview to Laura Bennett in The New Republic. He said that the industry was acting like Procter and Gamble when \u201cit\u2019s Herm\u00e8s.\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;But his harshest lines were reserved for Amazon Publishing. He tried a Kindle in the back of a cab in Rome, couldn\u2019t read it in the dim light, and thought, \u201cfuck this.\u201d He compared Amazon to Napoleon, diagnosing the company with a case of greed and megalomania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten Reach: In the middle of a cold, dark week, is there any greater gift than a new interview with Andrew Wylie? The man is tougher, more concise, and more quotable than anyone else in the industry.&nbsp;&nbsp;Last October, Andrew Wylie gave an interview to Laura Bennett in The New Republic. He said that the industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}