{"id":1636,"date":"2012-11-09T08:53:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2012-11-09T08:53:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:53:30","slug":"why-random-and-penguin-must-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/11\/09\/why-random-and-penguin-must-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Random and Penguin Must Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>60 years ago the founders of Penguin and Random House contemplated a merger, but now their successors are going forward with one. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no other choice.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedailybeast.com.feedsportal.com\/c\/34635\/f\/633982\/s\/2567cebd\/mf.gif?resize=1%2C1\" border=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/thedailybeast\/articles\/~4\/F8blyBzqj_I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>via The Daily Beast &#8211; Latest Articles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/09\/why-random-and-penguin-must-merge-and-when-they-almost-did.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29\">http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/09\/why-random-and-penguin-must-merge-and-when-they-almost-did.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60 years ago the founders of Penguin and Random House contemplated a merger, but now their successors are going forward with one. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no other choice. via The Daily Beast &#8211; Latest Articles http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/09\/why-random-and-penguin-must-merge-and-when-they-almost-did.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[7],"tags":[738,6,106],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-gayle-feldman","tag-ifttt","tag-the-daily-beast-latest-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-qo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}