{"id":3650,"date":"2021-05-13T15:18:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2021-05-13T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:18:07","slug":"why-did-harper-collins-buy-houghton-mifflin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/why-did-harper-collins-buy-houghton-mifflin\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Harper Collins Buy Houghton Mifflin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a rare current events episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosm.pub\/podcast\">People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing podcast<\/a>, Joe and Elly talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VNgo7n2hgNM\">the latest big fish in publishing to be swallowed up by an even bigger fish<\/a>. We talk about consolidation, specialization, and how sometimes your most successful experiment is the one you don&#8217;t want to keep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why did HarperCollins buy Houghton Mifflin and what does it mean? (A people&#039;s Guide to Publishing)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VNgo7n2hgNM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for listening \/ watching! If you have a publishing question you&#8217;d like us to tackle on the pod, send it to podcast at microcosm publishing dot com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a rare current events episode of the People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing podcast, Joe and Elly talk about the latest big fish in publishing to be swallowed up by an even bigger fish. We talk about consolidation, specialization, and how sometimes your most successful experiment is the one you don&#8217;t want to keep. Thanks for&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/why-did-harper-collins-buy-houghton-mifflin\/\" title=\"Read Why Did Harper Collins Buy Houghton Mifflin?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-business-of-publishing"],"my_excerpt":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On a rare current events episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosm.pub\/podcast\">People's Guide to Publishing podcast<\/a>, Joe and Elly talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VNgo7n2hgNM\">the latest big fish in publishing to be swallowed up by an even bigger fish<\/a>. 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