{"id":1316,"date":"2021-10-11T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2021-10-10T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:27:45","slug":"goodbye-google-play-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/10\/goodbye-google-play-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Google Play Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye, Google Play Books. As of today (Columbus Day, 2021), you no longer can find <em>How to Use Hyphens<\/em> on Google Play Books.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wp-editor-md-post-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show\/\">Google is giving data to police based on search keywords<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot support keyword warrants, which infringe on innocent people&#8217;s privacy.<\/p>\n<p>So, <em>How to Use Hyphens<\/em> is no longer sold on Google Play Books and can no longer be previewed in Google Books.<\/p>\n<p>Google lost my trust. Google no longer deserves to earn ebook-sales revenue from my readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye, Google Play Books. As of today (Columbus Day, 2021), you no longer can find How to Use Hyphens on Google Play Books. Google is giving data to police based on search keywords. I cannot support keyword warrants, which infringe on innocent people&#8217;s privacy. So, How to Use Hyphens is no longer sold on Google&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outsiders-perspective"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Goodbye, Google Play Books - Kirk Mahoney . com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/10\/goodbye-google-play-books\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Goodbye, Google Play Books - Kirk Mahoney . com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Goodbye, Google Play Books. 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