{"id":2552,"date":"2011-02-16T08:35:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2011-02-16T08:35:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T16:35:40","slug":"borders-closing-30-of-stores-filing-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/borders-closing-30-of-stores-filing-bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Borders closing 30% of stores, filing bankruptcy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the book biz changes&#8230;step by step. Ultimately the folding of bricks and mortar mega-stores is, imho, likely to continue, ultimately leaving the indies who deal in used and new and used; the online sellers who ship; and the e-books. And the pirates.<\/p>\n<p>What this also does is mean 30% of Borders&#8217; buying is now lost to publishers, who are hurting with every such event, and ultimately to writers, who are hurting right along with them; and the bankruptcy means whatever Borders owes publishers and other vendors across the board won&#8217;t get paid. Neither will the writers, of course. <\/p>\n<p>Interesting times, my friends. I got a check the other day that is only 10% of what that check used to be. A 90% pay cut is pretty steep, let us tell you.<\/p>\n<p> And now we&#8217;ve got a myth floating the internet that out of print means public domain. The pirates are flourishing on that supposition. They&#8217;re encouraging readers to scan and offer up out of print favorites&#8230;when almost all backlist is out of print, because of the publishing crisis.<\/p>\n<p> How nice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the book biz changes&#8230;step by step. Ultimately the folding of bricks and mortar mega-stores is, imho, likely to continue, ultimately leaving the indies who deal in used and new and used; the online sellers who ship; and the e-books. And the pirates. What this also does is mean 30% of Borders&#8217; buying is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}