{"id":61,"date":"2011-07-19T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/borders-closing-for-good\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:56:00","slug":"borders-closing-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/borders-closing-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Borders Closing for Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borders, unable to find a buyer, has announced that it will liquidate and close all remaining stores.\u00a0 Passive Guy at T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/\"><i>he Passive Voice<\/i><\/a> has summarized announcements from a variety of sources, each with a slightly different take on the situation.\u00a0 You can read PG&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/07\/2011\/arrivederci-borders\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThePassiveVoice+%28The+Passive+Voice%29\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 The comment that most disturbs me, after the fact that nearly 11,000 people will lose their jobs, is that some publishers are now planning on smaller print runs since Borders will not longer be available to stock their books.\u00a0 While this makes sense from a short-term business perspective, long term that could have a detrimental effect on authors.\u00a0 With smaller print runs, sales will be lower.\u00a0 Currently, if sales are low, publishers drop authors.\u00a0 How with the new lower print runs affect the drop numbers?\u00a0 Will we see more authors being dropped by publishers, resulting in fewer selections on fewer bookstore shelves?\u00a0 Will those author be able to continue series that have existing audiences by indie publishing, or will the publishers control the rights to those series?\u00a0 I suspect the answers to those questions with vary among authors and publishers, but I have concerns about some of my favorite midlist authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borders, unable to find a buyer, has announced that it will liquidate and close all remaining stores.\u00a0 Passive Guy at The Passive Voice has summarized announcements from a variety of sources, each with a slightly different take on the situation.\u00a0 You can read PG&#8217;s post here.\u00a0 The comment that most disturbs me, after the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}