{"id":3189,"date":"2018-03-28T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/As-in-other-industries-rising-profits-are-not-being-passed-on-to-the-people-who-are-doing-productive-work"},"modified":"2018-03-28T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:29:55","slug":"as-in-other-industries-rising-profits-are-not-being-passed-on-to-the-people-who-are-doing-productive-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/03\/28\/as-in-other-industries-rising-profits-are-not-being-passed-on-to-the-people-who-are-doing-productive-work\/","title":{"rendered":"As in other industries, rising profits are not being passed on to the people who are doing productive work."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>As in other industries, rising profits are not being passed on to the people who are doing productive work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Steve Turnbull<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of us have been well-aware that the big five trad publishers have been screwing authors but that knowledge was perhaps based on anecdotal evidence, well the figures are in and it&#8217;s the book trade itself that&#8217;s saying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/2018\/03\/the-profits-from-publishing-authors-perspective\/\">http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/2018\/03\/the-profits-from-publishing-authors-perspective\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trouble is they haven&#8217;t realised they are no longer the only game in town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Although I can just imagine one of their execs whining: &#8220;It&#8217;s all the fault of Amazon and its self-publishing, if people didn&#8217;t self-publish we wouldn&#8217;t have to do this to our authors.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/2018\/03\/the-profits-from-publishing-authors-perspective\/<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        As in other industries, rising profits are not being passed on to the people who are doing productive work.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/03\/28\/as-in-other-industries-rising-profits-are-not-being-passed-on-to-the-people-who-are-doing-productive-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}