{"id":261,"date":"2006-07-06T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T15:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2006\/07\/06\/free-business-books\/"},"modified":"2006-07-06T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T15:18:37","slug":"free-business-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Free Business Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;ve been keeping a secret from all my readers, I haven&#8217;t bought a book in over a year. Yet I&#8217;ve probably read 4 or so. &#8220;But Devin, how can you read books if you haven&#8217;t bought any?!&#8221; My answer to you is: have you ever heard of the library? Then my second answer to you is: have you ever heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inbubblewrap.com\/\">inBubbleWrap<\/a>? It&#8217;s a side-project brought to you by the great people at <a href=\"http:\/\/800ceoread.com\/\">800-CEO-READ<\/a> and it basically functions as a daily drawing for a free book. I&#8217;ve won three so far. I&#8217;m in the process of reading <a href=\"http:\/\/800ceoread.com\/products\/?ISBN=0743257529\">China, Inc<\/a> which I got in the mail a few weeks ago. Another good way to get free books is to ask publishers for a copy in exchange for a review. I&#8217;ve scored another 3 or 4 this way and have a review to post shortly (way overdue). There you have it, my secret is out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;ve been keeping a secret from all my readers, I haven&#8217;t bought a book in over a year. Yet I&#8217;ve probably read 4 or so. &#8220;But Devin, how can you read books if you haven&#8217;t bought any?!&#8221; My answer to you is: have you ever heard of the library? Then my second answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}