{"id":3621,"date":"2016-10-11T18:09:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/At-least-theyre-making-an-attempt"},"modified":"2016-10-11T18:09:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:09:52","slug":"at-least-theyre-making-an-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/10\/11\/at-least-theyre-making-an-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"At least they&#8217;re making an attempt."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>At least they&#8217;re making an attempt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Maria Rich<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is very interesting! I like what they are attempting to do. Tom Weldon, chief executive of Penguin Random House UK, said \u201cWe feel very strongly about diversity in publishing. For me it is a real problem when we don\u2019t reflect the society we live in. It\u2019s not good for books, or culture, or commercially. We are going to become irrelevant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What they are doing about it also interesting. A three-part workshop for potential new authors and a year-long mentorship for three of those. Also, they are making efforts to employ more diversity. To the extent of changing their hiring qualifications!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weldon said, &#8220;When a publisher has a bestseller, it\u2019s easy to [just keep publishing] what sold yesterday. [But] there are amazing writers out there who we aren\u2019t commissioning. The whole industry needs to change.\u201d AMEN. Now can we bring this thought process over to the US?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/oct\/10\/publishing-risks-becoming-irrelevant-warns-penguin-random-house-boss<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        At least they&#8217;re making an attempt.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/10\/11\/at-least-theyre-making-an-attempt\/\">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":[21],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621"}],"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=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}