{"id":54,"date":"2008-12-04T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T09:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/bad-news-for-those-of-us-in-pu.html"},"modified":"2008-12-04T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T09:52:11","slug":"bad-news-for-those-of-us-in-pu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/bad-news-for-those-of-us-in-pu.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad News for Those of Us in Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My editor extraordinaire at Jossey-Bass, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0595338410?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theoblogy-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0595338410\">Sheryl Fullerton<\/a>, pointed me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/chipmacgregor.typepad.com\/main\/2008\/12\/black-wednesday.html\">depressing post from Chip McGregor<\/a> (a well-known literary agent) on the Black Friday (December 3) in the publishing industry.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the lowlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simon &amp; Schuster cut 35 people (2% of its workforce).<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Nelson cut 54 people (10% of its workforce). <\/li>\n<li>Random House axed some of its top people and&nbsp;announced it is restructuring &#8212; and will disband the Doubleday Publishing Group.<\/li>\n<li>It has been reported that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has let go of<br \/>\nseveral employees (the company doesn&#8217;t comment on personnel matters).<br \/>\nBecky Saletan, the publisher, has been let go. <\/li>\n<li>And Borders&#8217; stock price fell under one dollar. That&#8217;s a very bad<br \/>\nthing &#8212; if their stock price stays under $1 for ninety days, they have<br \/>\nto do a consolidation of stock (the&nbsp; opposite of a stock split). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My editor extraordinaire at Jossey-Bass, Sheryl Fullerton, pointed me to a depressing post from Chip McGregor (a well-known literary agent) on the Black Friday (December 3) in the publishing industry. Some of the lowlights: Simon &amp; Schuster cut 35 people (2% of its workforce). Thomas Nelson cut 54 people (10% of its workforce). Random House&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bad News for Those of Us in Publishing - The New Christians<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/bad-news-for-those-of-us-in-pu.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bad News for Those of Us in Publishing - The New Christians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My editor extraordinaire at Jossey-Bass, Sheryl Fullerton, pointed me to a depressing post from Chip McGregor (a well-known literary agent) on the Black Friday (December 3) in the publishing industry. 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