{"id":518,"date":"2004-01-03T14:41:14","date_gmt":"2004-01-03T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/01\/bookshop_sales\/"},"modified":"2004-01-03T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2004-01-03T14:41:14","slug":"bookshop_sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/bookshop_sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookshop Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a piece somewhere recently (I don&#8217;t recall where exactly) which said that now is not a good time to buy books in the sales as you get good deals all year around.<br \/>\nI tend to agree with this, as the so called bargains look suspiciously like publisher initiatives to me rather than retailers shifting stock. Either that or everyone over-ordered Mark Urban&#8217;s book about Napoleonic sharpshooters.<br \/>\nAnd while we&#8217;re talking about books, last week The Guardian published their annual table of &#8220;Fastsellers&#8221; which I actually look forward to every year. (No link as at time of writing the Guardian hadn&#8217;t put it up). One of the biggest puzzles with this is that something called <i>Bride Stripped Bare<\/i> appeared at no. 92 without selling a single domestic copy. It doesn&#8217;t appear in paperback until March in the UK. Seems to be a load of rubbish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a piece somewhere recently (I don&#8217;t recall where exactly) which said that now is not a good time to buy books in the sales as you get good deals all year around. I tend to agree with this, as the so called bargains look suspiciously like publisher initiatives to me rather than retailers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}