{"id":30920,"date":"2012-10-29T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/when-publishers-combine.html"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:18:25","slug":"when-publishers-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/when-publishers-combine.html","title":{"rendered":"When Publishers Combine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, the big news from this story is the tragic squandering of an opportunity to create a company called &quot;Random Penguin&quot;.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/wp-content\/themes\/aesthete\/img\/headers\/book2.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/10\/2012\/penguin-and-random-house-to-combine-creating-the-worlds-leading-trade-publisher\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter'>Penguin and Random House to combine, creating the world&#8217;s leading trade publisher | The Passive Voice<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom the Pearson website: Pearson and Bertelsmann today announce an agreement to create the world\u2019s leading consumer publishing organisation by combining Penguin and Random House. The combination brin&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/emiXiXi5E9S' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, the big news from this story is the tragic squandering of an opportunity to create a company called &quot;Random Penguin&quot;. Embedded Link Penguin and Random House to combine, creating the world&#8217;s leading trade publisher | The Passive Voice From the Pearson website: Pearson and Bertelsmann today announce an agreement to create the world\u2019s leading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/when-publishers-combine.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Publishers Combine!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,36,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-media-books","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43175,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/the-penguin-books-penguin.html","url_meta":{"origin":30920,"position":0},"title":"The Penguin Books Penguin","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 22-Jun-14 3:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A snapshot history of the Penguin logo, now (partially) subsumed into the new Penguin Random House publishing conglomerate (see\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/IfXmRb).\ufeff The Story Behind Penguin Books' Beloved Bird - Businessweek View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5496,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/03\/put_down_your_w.html","url_meta":{"origin":30920,"position":1},"title":"Put down your weapon &#8230; you have 23 seconds to comply &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Mar-04 11:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"Which Colossal Death Robot are You? 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