{"id":272276,"date":"2009-07-06T18:54:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T18:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/07\/06\/paper-over-board-follow-up\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:19:47","slug":"paper-over-board-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/07\/06\/paper-over-board-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper-Over-Board Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a couple weeks ago I caused a little bit of a stir by announcing via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=2037\">an article in Publishing Perspectives<\/a> that we were abandoning the paper-over-board format in favor of all paperbacks. We got a lot of responses about this, ranging from people who were disappointed and love paper-over-board, to booksellers explaining that yes, they were shelving these in the hardcover section which has a very different market. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, I think we did the right thing, but one of the reasons we were resisting this change is because we were afraid that reviewers wouldn&#8217;t take the paperbacks as seriously as the hardcover, p-o-b books. <\/p>\n<p>But everyone assured us that those days are over . . . that paperback originals are acceptable to everyone, etc., etc. <\/p>\n<p>We send each new catalog to hundreds of reviewers, bloggers, booksellers, and usually include a letter offering free reading copies if there are any titles you might like to review. So today we received this response from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/\"><em>The Post and Courier<\/em><\/a> in South Carolina:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/295.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks, Chad, but we do not review softcover books.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Fantastic! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a couple weeks ago I caused a little bit of a stir by announcing via an article in Publishing Perspectives that we were abandoning the paper-over-board format in favor of all paperbacks. We got a lot of responses about this, ranging from people who were disappointed and love paper-over-board, to booksellers explaining that yes, [&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":[25486,25496,24256,1646],"class_list":["post-272276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bill-thompson","tag-post-and-courier","tag-publishing-perspectives","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272276","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=272276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323566,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272276\/revisions\/323566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}