{"id":123831,"date":"2019-12-18T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/18\/book-people-collapse-plunges-small-publisher-galley-beggar-into-crisis\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:22:39","slug":"book-people-collapse-plunges-small-publisher-galley-beggar-into-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=123831","title":{"rendered":"Book People collapse plunges small publisher Galley Beggar into crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editors say it was pressured into printing an edition of Ducks, Newburyport for the discount retailer but now may not see the returnsGalley Beggar Press, the tiny literary publisher behind acclaimed novels including the Booker-shortlisted Ducks, Newburyport and women\u2019s prize for fiction winner A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, has been forced to make a public appeal for support after the Book People\u2019s fall into administration left it with a \u00a340,000 hole in its finances.Galley Beggar\u2019s co-director Eloise Millar turned to crowdfunding on Wednesday to ask for urgent help from readers as it faces \u201cthe biggest crisis in its seven-year history\u201d. The publisher entered into a partnership with the discount retailer earlier this year when Lucy Ellmann\u2019s novel was shortlisted for the Booker. Galley Beggar produced 8,000 special editions of the novel, costing it around \u00a340,000. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/dec\/18\/book-people-collapse-plunges-small-publisher-galley-beggar-into-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">Book People collapse plunges small publisher Galley Beggar into crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors say it was pressured into printing an edition of Ducks, Newburyport for the discount retailer but now may not see the returnsGalley Beggar Press, the tiny literary publisher behind acclaimed novels including the Booker-shortlisted Ducks, Newburyport and women\u2019s prize for fiction winner A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}