{"id":255936,"date":"2007-09-13T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/13\/book-pricing\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:26","slug":"book-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/13\/book-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litkicks.com\/BeatPages\/msg.jsp?what=BookPricingIndex\">LitKicks<\/a> there&#8217;s an interesting discussion going on about whether or not &#8220;Literary Fiction Suffers from Dysfunctional Pricing?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Info on the first week of the discussion is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litkicks.com\/BeatPages\/msg.jsp?what=BookPricingIndex\">here<\/a> and the second week&#8217;s discussion is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litkicks.com\/BeatPages\/msg.jsp?what=BookPricingFive\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Lot of interesting people participating, and the motivating point for this week&#8217;s discussion is thought-provoking:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Simon Lipskar points out the undeniable fact that book publishing is a for-profit business that benefits not only corporations but also writers and, hopefully, readers. Let&#8217;s accept this fact, and let&#8217;s all agree that we are not here to debate capitalism itself. If advocates of trade paper original publishing cannot make a believable case that adopting the lower-priced format should lead to greater general profits, then we have no case at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at LitKicks there&#8217;s an interesting discussion going on about whether or not &#8220;Literary Fiction Suffers from Dysfunctional Pricing?&#8221; Info on the first week of the discussion is available here and the second week&#8217;s discussion is here. Lot of interesting people participating, and the motivating point for this week&#8217;s discussion is thought-provoking: Simon Lipskar points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[806,1836],"class_list":["post-255936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-business-of-books","tag-cwp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362346,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255936\/revisions\/362346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}