{"id":2992,"date":"2010-01-13T10:41:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T18:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2010-01-13T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T00:18:13","slug":"stanford-professional-poublishing-course-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/stanford-professional-poublishing-course-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Professional Publishing Course Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 32 years, <a href=\"http:\/\/martinlevinandfriends.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/stanford-permanently-closes-stanford.html\">the Stanford Professional Publishing Course has permanently closed<\/a>. The decision reflects the constraints of the economic recession, but it may also signal a general retreat from a commitment to print publishing in the context of today&#8217;s online world. <\/p>\n<p>I took the course in 1978 or thereabouts &#8212; I think it was the second year it was offered. I was working on my dissertation in comparative literature at the time. At the conclusion of the course I noticed an ad for a marketing copywriter with Jossey-Bass Publishers. I applied for the job and got it. I didn&#8217;t work at Jossey-Bass for long, but I did pick up the basics of book publishing and copyediting. The following year I began working as an editor for North Point Press, and I have worked in publishing ever since Thanks, SPPC, for derailing my academic career!<\/p>\n<p>One could argue that with print publishing undergoing its current painful redefinition the course is needed now more than it was then. It looks like Martin Levin will be <a href=\"http:\/\/martinlevinandfriends.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/stanford-permanently-closes-stanford.html\">exploring new possibilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 32 years, the Stanford Professional Publishing Course has permanently closed. The decision reflects the constraints of the economic recession, but it may also signal a general retreat&#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\/2992"}],"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=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}