{"id":267846,"date":"2009-01-15T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/01\/15\/fair-and-balanced\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:23","slug":"fair-and-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/01\/15\/fair-and-balanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair and Balanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In contrast to the news from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=1600\"><span class=\"caps\">NEA<\/span> about adult reading,<\/a> here&#8217;s some more sobering info from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6629431.html\"><em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>November bookstore sales were as bad as people thought they were. Preliminary figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show that sales dropped 13% in the month, falling to $1.05 billion. Sales for all of retail were off 10%. For the 11 month period, bookstore sales were flat at $14.8 billion, while sales for the entire retail segment fell 0.7%.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gulp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contrast to the news from the NEA about adult reading, here&#8217;s some more sobering info from Publishers Weekly: November bookstore sales were as bad as people thought they were. Preliminary figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show that sales dropped 13% in the month, falling to $1.05 billion. Sales for all of retail were [&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":[18576,7176,1836],"class_list":["post-267846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bad-book-sales","tag-book-sales","tag-cwp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267846","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=267846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354886,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267846\/revisions\/354886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}