{"id":5821,"date":"2011-08-17T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T09:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/17\/imminent-death-of-the-book-con\/"},"modified":"2011-08-17T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T09:44:24","slug":"imminent-death-of-the-book-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/17\/imminent-death-of-the-book-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Imminent Death of the Book, Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little more tab clearance: these are stories about the transformation of publishing that I&#8217;ve been meaning to say something about but haven&#8217;t got around to.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, some actual news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/09\/books\/survey-shows-publishing-expanded-since-2008.html\">rumors of the imminent death of publishing may be somewhat exaggerated<\/a>, as more books were sold for more money in 2010 than in a while.<\/li>\n<li>Of course, that doesn&#8217;t make Borders any less dead, so here are a couple of eulogies: from <a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/borders.html\">Dean Dad<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bordersblog.com\/scifi\/2011\/08\/12\/babel-clash-special-content\/babel-clash-special-content-jeff-mariotte\/\">Jeff Mariotte<\/a> (the latter hosted by Borders so, you know, read it soon before it disappears).<\/li>\n<li>If you remain convinced that traditional publishing is going the way of the dinosaur and want to get a jump on evolving into an emu, <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/013176.html\">Jim Macdonald gives you the lowdown on self-publishing<\/a> in the modern age. Jim is an implacable foe of all manner of publishing scams, so you can trust his advice. And always remember: Money flows <em>toward<\/em> the writer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s what&#8217;s struck me as interesting enough to keep a browser tab open, anyway. Feel free to leave your own links and discussion in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little more tab clearance: these are stories about the transformation of publishing that I&#8217;ve been meaning to say something about but haven&#8217;t got around to. First, some actual news: rumors of the imminent death of publishing may be somewhat exaggerated, as more books were sold for more money in 2010 than in a while.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/17\/imminent-death-of-the-book-con\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Imminent Death of the Book, Continued<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pop_culture","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}