{"id":260596,"date":"2008-02-27T18:17:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T18:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/02\/27\/random-house-theyre-maybe-starting-to-get-it\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:25","slug":"random-house-theyre-maybe-starting-to-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/02\/27\/random-house-theyre-maybe-starting-to-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Random House, they&#39;re maybe starting to get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/marksarvas.blogs.com\/elegvar\/2008\/02\/see-for-yoursel.html\">Mark<\/a>, Random House is letting you download&#8212;free of charge, those generous scamps&#8212;Charles Bock&#8217;s <em>Beautiful Children<\/em>, although only for a limited time. I guess once the time expires everyone&#8217;s PDFs&#8230;just disappear, or something. Its a nice gesture, anyway, and we&#8217;d like to see more people getting on the &#8216;why don&#8217;t we give it away&#8217; bandwagon, especially for those books, unlike Charles&#8217;, that aren&#8217;t, and likely never will be, on the <em>Times<\/em> bestseller list. <\/p>\n<p>Now if I can just convince Chad and every agent, author, and cultural institution that this is a good idea for Open Letter and translations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Mark, Random House is letting you download&#8212;free of charge, those generous scamps&#8212;Charles Bock&#8217;s Beautiful Children, although only for a limited time. I guess once the time expires everyone&#8217;s PDFs&#8230;just disappear, or something. Its a nice gesture, anyway, and we&#8217;d like to see more people getting on the &#8216;why don&#8217;t we give it away&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[10486,5846,2136,10506,10496],"class_list":["post-260596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-charles-bock","tag-e-books","tag-ejvl","tag-free-as-in-beer","tag-the-elegant-variation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260596","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359196,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260596\/revisions\/359196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}