{"id":2190,"date":"2017-10-30T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T22:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2017-10-30T20:15:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T18:15:20","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-book-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>book fair<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I went to the Helsinki Book Fair.\u00a0Fairs are\u00a0a bit too marketing-focused; I prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.net\/yk\/sana\/en.index.php?word_id=54c2330b727bf6af66cb673d75fbe989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">literary happenings<\/a> that focus on discussion. My book purchases nowadays require careful consideration: I don&#8217;t have any more room on my shelves. If I buy new books, I have to get rid of some I already have.<\/p>\n<p>At the fair, I noticed that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rsuominen\/status\/923893895670435841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-euro bargain<\/a> bookcases have taken over most of the fairgrounds. To me this is a sad example of the state of the traditional publishing industry. A high proportion\u00a0of\u00a0books, including some representing years of work by the author,\u00a0will end up in the bargain bin, because even booklovers like me are reluctant to add to our collections.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the contents of the book aren&#8217;t confined to one<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>format, as <em>Niklas Bengtsson<\/em> stated during an<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>interview at the fair. Bengtsson described<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>a wide range of forms that books have taken, from papyrus to\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kielipoliisi\/status\/923575902591647745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">folded format<\/a>, and wondered whether a man could be considered as a book if he has tattooed a poem collection on his skin.<\/p>\n<p>New formats are electronic,\u00a0and the bookcases at the Exhibition Center are pass\u00e9. It seems that book fairs and publishing houses faithfully hold onto the old format\u00a0because they haven&#8217;t figured out as profitable a revenue model for electronic publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I went to the Helsinki Book Fair.\u00a0Fairs are\u00a0a bit too marketing-focused; I prefer literary happenings that focus on discussion. My book purchases nowadays require careful consideration: I don&#8217;t have any more room on my shelves. If I buy new books, I have to get rid of some I already have. At the fair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}