{"id":226,"date":"2007-06-08T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T00:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/the-homogenization-of-publishing-continues\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T00:39:27","slug":"the-homogenization-of-publishing-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/the-homogenization-of-publishing-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The homogenization of publishing continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/michael-hyatt.jpg\" title=\"michael hyatt\" alt=\"michael hyatt\" align=\"left\" width=\"150\" \/>Remember the days when we had a large number of medium- to large-sized publishers fiercely competing to be the leading cultural voice? Neither do I, but the continuing consolidation of the industry can&#8217;t be helping. Now Michael Hyatt of Thomas Nelson (pictured at left) is sweeping away the atavistic vestiges of long-gone diversity and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhyatt.com\/fromwhereisit\/\" title=\"m hyatt\">arguing for the elimination of imprints altogether<\/a>. And the thing is, he&#8217;s probably right. Nelson&#8217;s inprints were probably just about meaningless, so why hang on to them?. The damage has already been done. So, yeah, why not do away with the charade of diversity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the days when we had a large number of medium- to large-sized publishers fiercely competing to be the leading cultural voice? Neither do I, but the continuing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}