{"id":2391,"date":"2009-01-30T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2009-01-30T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:47:04","slug":"more-horror-books-and-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2391","title":{"rendered":"More Horror: Books and Salt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 writers are begging the Washington Post to <a href=\"http:\/\/booksinq.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/weeping-and-gnashing.html\">keep Book World in print<\/a>.  You must, you must, you must, they said.  If you don&#8217;t print, we won&#8217;t be read.<\/p>\n<p>The Post said it needs to cut costs, so the stand-alone book section must go.  Current circulation for its Sunday edition is 866,057; daily editions are read by 622,714 (Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations FAS-FAX Report &#8211; 9\/30\/2008).  I wonder what <a href=\"http:\/\/publishing2.com\/2008\/03\/03\/fixing-obsolete-newspaper-circulation-marketing-a-challenge-to-the-washington-post\/\">ideas they bandied about<\/a>.  Scott Karp has a good marketing idea:<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;It\u2019s Sunday, time to unplug, shut off the Blackberry, and take a break.<br \/>\n<br \/>    Relax, kick back, and catch up with <i>The Washington Post Sunday Edition<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if WaPo thought of cutting the gossip\/tabloidish stuff. Or the reverse idea, adding gossip to the books section.  &#8220;PHOTO ESSAY: Skinny Celebrities, how revealing can you get when you don&#8217;t have anything to reveal?  And Journalist Megan Basham&#8217;s new book argues that women would rather stay at home than join the work force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now, more horrific news: New York leadership is murmuring against the perceived excess of salt, suggesting that restaurants volunteer today to use less salt or <a href=\"http:\/\/whenfallsthecoliseum.com\/2009\/01\/29\/bloombergs-voluntary-war-on-salt-making-it-hard-to-write-satire\/\">they may be forced to volunteer tomorrow.<\/a>  Scott Stein says, &#8220;If I wrote that, readers would recognize it as satire, an exaggeration of government bullying, and maybe even accuse me of being unsubtle.&#8221; (via Books, Inq.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 writers are begging the Washington Post to keep Book World in print. You must, you must, you must, they said. If you don&#8217;t print, we won&#8217;t be read. The Post said it needs to cut costs, so the stand-alone book section must go. Current circulation for its Sunday edition is 866,057; daily editions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Horror: Books and Salt!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-the-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}