{"id":57,"date":"2007-04-14T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T06:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-cubed.info\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-04-14T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T06:38:12","slug":"globalised-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Globalised Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m in Japan, I&#8217;ve been ordering books from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/\" title=\"Amazon Japan\">Amazon.co.jp<\/a>. They do have an English language site, although it doesn&#8217;t cover all of the elements, which can be a bit annoying. I had to get one of the caretakers here at the Guest House to help me decipher the page to report a problem with an external seller order (Amazon were hassling me for feedback and it hadn&#8217;t arrived &#8211; they hadn&#8217;t shipped it yet nor updated the shipping estimate on Amazon&#8217;s site &#8211; they got modest feedback for that when it did arrive).<\/p>\n<p>It did strike me that this is now a global marketplace for small businesses when I got a book today. I ordered it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/\" title=\"Amazon Japan\">Amazon.co.jp<\/a> from an outfit called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/paperbackshop.co.uk\/\" title=\"UK Books and Music\">UK Books and Music<\/a>&#8221; (with web address Paperbackshop.co.uk) and it arrived posted from an address in Illinois in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m in Japan, I&#8217;ve been ordering books from Amazon.co.jp. They do have an English language site, although it doesn&#8217;t cover all of the elements, which can be a bit annoying. I had to get one of the caretakers here at the Guest House to help me decipher the page to report a problem with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-and-ethical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}