{"id":296,"date":"2012-03-28T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T17:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2013-12-26T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T20:18:35","slug":"the-amazon-ebook-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/the-amazon-ebook-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazon eBook Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

It starts out innocently enough. I am reading a story about the boom in dystopian fiction for young readers<\/a>. The story focuses mainly on the Hunger Games trilogy but also touches on a handful of other books and series.<\/p>\n

Many of the books mentioned I have read but I am interested in some of the others so I take the logical progression of search the name, find the Amazon link and add it to my book wish list.<\/p>\n

This is where Amazon gets you.<\/p>\n

Most of the time, the book is $5 or $10 so I add it to the list for later. I figure when I am on the hunt for something new I’ll pick it up.<\/p>\n

Only, today when I found The Knife of Never Letting Go<\/a> I found the book was $1. Normally, it is $10 but today, it was a single dollar. I don’t know for how long or why but it was.<\/p>\n

So I bought it.<\/p>\n

This is how Amazon gets you. Ever since the Kindle and their iOS apps reignited my love of reading, I’ve added to my list of books to read. Sometimes I look for sales, other times I use the wonderful book-lending service Lende<\/a> which I reviewed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My list of books to read is growing out of control and every week I am adding more and more. I love to read and I love Amazon’s enabling of my reading but they need to stop the madness. I have too many books and there is no sign of stopping.<\/p>\n

Is there such a thing as reader’s guilt?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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