{"id":43832,"date":"2014-07-25T08:24:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/you-must-remember-this-a-niche-is-still-a-niche.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:27:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:27:06","slug":"you-must-remember-this-a-niche-is-still-a-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/you-must-remember-this-a-niche-is-still-a-niche.html","title":{"rendered":"You must remember this, a niche is still a niche"},"content":{"rendered":"
As time goes by …<\/p>\n

Interesting (if a bit opinionated) article on the rise and (claimed) fall of the "right-wing book market" — whose pundits were pleased as punch to see publishers set up specialty imprints and the like for them when things were heating up a decade ago, but are now complaining that they are being marginalized and stuck in a "conservative ghetto" with other folk who have jumped on the bandwagon and glutted the market.<\/p>\n

It's a cautionary tale for any sort of entrepreneur. \u00a0There's some early value to being identifiable as the best garlic-guac-burger maker in town with a big sign that says "HOME OF THE GARLIC-GUAC-BURGER" — but what happens when a bunch of other garlic-guac-burger joints open — or when people get tired of garlic-guac-burgers and want to try tandoori-banana-brats? \u00a0Then that big sign isn't getting you business, it's driving it away.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Right-Wing Book Market is Dying a Free-Market Death<\/a>
\n The free market is a cruel beast, which is something the book publishing industry has been made acutely aware of in the past decade or two. But now, even in one arena where that industry \u2026\n <\/p>\n

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As time goes by … Interesting (if a bit opinionated) article on the rise and (claimed) fall of the "right-wing book market" — whose pundits were pleased as punch to see publishers set up specialty imprints and the like for them when things were heating up a decade ago, but are now complaining that they … Continue reading “You must remember this, a niche is still a niche”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17860,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/unblogged-bits-wed-14-jul-10-0201.html","url_meta":{"origin":43832,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 14-Jul-10 0201)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Jul-10 12:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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