{"id":271726,"date":"2009-06-11T15:28:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T15:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/06\/11\/and-one-last-piece-of-awful-news\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:19:52","slug":"and-one-last-piece-of-awful-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/06\/11\/and-one-last-piece-of-awful-news\/","title":{"rendered":"And One Last Piece of Awful News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least this post isn&#8217;t about a bookstore\/publisher closing&#8212;instead it&#8217;s about the absolute grossness of corporations:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday, a Bookseller story by Victoria Gallagher reported that \u201csources\u201d were saying \u201cPenguin is believed to have signed an exclusive deal with W H Smith\u201d bookstores to be \u201cthe sole supplier of foreign travel guides in its airports, motorway, railway and hospital shops.\u201d The reported one-year contract would begin next week and mean that in the chain\u2019s 450 Travel stores only travel guides from Penguin\u2019s DK and Rough Guides lines would be available \u2014 nothing from Lonely Planet, Time Out, Berlitz, Frommer\u2019s, Fodor\u2019s, etc.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s not as if the deal wasn\u2019t going to cost Penguin \u2014 Gallagher reports the company gave <span class=\"caps\">WHS<\/span> a whopping 72% discount. Still, it\u2019s a devastating blow to the competition, and probably worth it as such to Penguin: <span class=\"caps\">WHS<\/span> is the only bookstore at airports controlled by <span class=\"caps\">BAA<\/span>, the company that controls the UK\u2019s busiest airports, including Heathrow, Gatwick, and Edinburgh. (from <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=7037\">Moby Lives<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thankfully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/87824-travel-writers-hit-out-at-exclusive-whspenguin-deal.html\">a boycott has started,<\/a> which is at least, well, something. This sort of anti-choice, anti-reader activity is total bullshit and a scary sign of the times. . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least this post isn&#8217;t about a bookstore\/publisher closing&#8212;instead it&#8217;s about the absolute grossness of corporations: On Sunday, a Bookseller story by Victoria Gallagher reported that \u201csources\u201d were saying \u201cPenguin is believed to have signed an exclusive deal with W H Smith\u201d bookstores to be \u201cthe sole supplier of foreign travel guides in its airports, [&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":[24666,1836,19426],"class_list":["post-271726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-corporate-publishing","tag-cwp","tag-penguin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271726","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=271726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352356,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271726\/revisions\/352356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}