{"id":263056,"date":"2008-06-30T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/06\/30\/more-depressing-book-news\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:30:04","slug":"more-depressing-book-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/06\/30\/more-depressing-book-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More Depressing Book News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like another well-known independent bookseller is on the ropes (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6574238.html?nid=2286&#38;source=title&#38;rid=1447936737\"><i>PW Daily<\/i><\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>After closing its 15-year-old Penn Quarter store in Washington, D.C., on Friday to make room for a Wagamama noodle shop, <i>(Ed. Note: At least it&#8217;s not a fucking Cold Stone Creamery.<\/i>) Olsson\u2019s Books &#038; Records, which is headquartered in Silver Spring, Md., is continuing to be squeezed by publishers. On June 19, three of the largest\u2014Hachette Book Group, Random House and Penguin Group\u2014filed a petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to place Olsson Enterprises, dba Olsson\u2019s Books &#038; Records, into involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like another well-known independent bookseller is on the ropes (via PW Daily): After closing its 15-year-old Penn Quarter store in Washington, D.C., on Friday to make room for a Wagamama noodle shop, (Ed. Note: At least it&#8217;s not a fucking Cold Stone Creamery.) Olsson\u2019s Books &#038; Records, which is headquartered in Silver Spring, Md., [&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":[1836,13056,1946],"class_list":["post-263056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-olssons-books-records","tag-publishers-weekly"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263056","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=263056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357706,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263056\/revisions\/357706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}