{"id":4965,"date":"2024-02-29T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=4965"},"modified":"2024-02-29T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:27:01","slug":"why-does-publishing-create-so-much-waste-and-what-can-we-do-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/why-does-publishing-create-so-much-waste-and-what-can-we-do-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Publishing Create So Much Waste (and what can we do)? (A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Largely due to consumer preference and obstinate legacy behaviors, the world of book publishing still operates on the same model from the 1800s. Mass production creates overprinting, and the ship and return model creates damaged books that don&#8217;t have anywhere to go. This week, we take a look at how that happened and what publishers can do about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Largely due to consumer preference and obstinate legacy behaviors, the world of book publishing still operates on the same model from the 1800s. Mass production creates overprinting, and the ship and return model creates damaged books that don&#8217;t have anywhere to go. This week, we take a look at how that happened and what publishers&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/why-does-publishing-create-so-much-waste-and-what-can-we-do-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/\" title=\"Read Why Does Publishing Create So Much Waste (and what can we do)? (A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing)\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":["post-4965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-business-of-publishing","tag-podcast"],"my_excerpt":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Largely due to consumer preference and obstinate legacy behaviors, the world of book publishing still operates on the same model from the 1800s. Mass production creates overprinting, and the ship and return model creates damaged books that don't have anywhere to go. 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Mass production creates overprinting, and the ship and return model creates damaged books that don&#8217;t have anywhere to go. This week, we take a look at how that happened and what publishers can do about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4966,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions\/4966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}