{"id":255906,"date":"2007-09-13T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T15:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/13\/whats-wrong-with-the-book-industry\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:26","slug":"whats-wrong-with-the-book-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/13\/whats-wrong-with-the-book-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#39;s Wrong With the Book Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Frey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/behind_the_deal\/james_frey_sells_novel_to_harpercollins_66894.asp\">million dollar advance<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Taking into account all personnel, marketing, production, translation expenses, it costs about $35,000 for a publisher to do a work of literature in translation. <\/p>\n<p>Using this figure as the base, just the advance for Frey&#8217;s new, and I&#8217;m sure, uber-craptastic, novel is worth 28 translations. <\/p>\n<p>(Great that <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/news\/lies\/james-frey-sells-novel-lies-about-that-too-299423.php\">Gawker<\/a> catches him in another lie re: writing short stories.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Frey&#8217;s million dollar advance. Taking into account all personnel, marketing, production, translation expenses, it costs about $35,000 for a publisher to do a work of literature in translation. Using this figure as the base, just the advance for Frey&#8217;s new, and I&#8217;m sure, uber-craptastic, novel is worth 28 translations. (Great that Gawker catches him [&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":[1836,3826],"class_list":["post-255906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-rant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255906","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=255906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362376,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255906\/revisions\/362376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}