{"id":4819,"date":"2009-10-22T22:15:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2009-10-22T22:15:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T02:15:13","slug":"save-chambers-harrap-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/save-chambers-harrap-in-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Chambers Harrap in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harrycampbell.blogspot.com\/\">Harry<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As you may have heard, the historic dictionary firm of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chambersharrap.co.uk\/\">Chambers<\/a> in<br \/>\nEdinburgh is threatened with closure by the parent company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hachette.com\/\">Hachette<br \/>\nLivre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">They intend moving the English dictionaries to London and the<br \/>\nbilingual Harrap titles to Paris, involving not just the loss of 27<br \/>\njobs in Edinburgh but the end of a publishing tradition going back<br \/>\nnearly two centuries.\u00c2\u00a0 Chambers is a Scottish and British institution<br \/>\ndear to the hearts of word-lovers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yes, the advent of free resources on the internet has changed the<br \/>\nworld of reference publishing, but it is far from clear whether all<br \/>\noptions for the future of Chambers Harrap have been properly<br \/>\nconsidered in what appears to be a very drastic and possibly even<br \/>\nunderhand move by Hachette.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel strongly we shouldn&#8217;t just accept<br \/>\nthis as inevitable.\u00c2\u00a0 Hachette should be forced at the very least to<br \/>\nundertake a properly full and open review of the situation first, in<br \/>\ndue consultation with the NUJ.\u00c2\u00a0 If you wish to join with others in<br \/>\nurging them to think again, you may like to sign the online petition<br \/>\nat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/chambers-in-edinburgh\/\">http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/chambers-in-edinburgh\/<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It only<br \/>\ntakes a few seconds.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">More at <a href=\"http:\/\/sn.im\/chambersharrap\">http:\/\/sn.im\/chambersharrap<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/harrycampbell.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/harrycampbell.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry writes: As you may have heard, the historic dictionary firm of Chambers in Edinburgh is threatened with closure by the parent company Hachette Livre. They intend moving the English dictionaries to London and the bilingual Harrap titles to Paris, involving not just the loss of 27 jobs in Edinburgh but the end of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[2021,1010,2022,1199],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-chambers","tag-dictionary","tag-petition","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1fJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}