{"id":9144,"date":"2020-07-25T06:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2020-07-25T06:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T11:15:52","slug":"transphobia-has-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2020\/07\/25\/transphobia-has-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Transphobia has consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/film\/news\/jk-rowling-book-sales-harry-potter-1234708777\/\">Sales of J. K. Rowling&#8217;s books in the US fell twenty percent short of the industry average<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLast month, sales in print books in fiction overall rose 31.4% in the U.S. from May, according to figures from NPD BookScan, with fiction titles in adult, young adult and juvenile sectors all seeing similar double-digit growth. The author of the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d series, by contrast, saw her print book sales in the U.S. rise just 10.9% in June. \u201cHarry Potter\u201d sales \u2014 including licensed titles not authored by Rowling \u2014 rose even less, just 7.7% for the month. While the BookScan figures do not account for other points of sale \u2014 like eBooks, sales to libraries and direct publisher sales \u2014 they do point to a remarkably sudden and sharp drop in print sales for Rowling\u2019s books.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIt seems that despite her habit of suing people for pointing out her transphobia, enough people have cottoned on to hurt her sales. Once again proving that the vast majority of people do not have any truck with transphobes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of J. K. Rowling&#8217;s books in the US fell twenty percent short of the industry average: Last month, sales in print books in fiction overall rose 31.4% in the U.S. from May, according to figures from NPD BookScan, with fiction titles in adult, young adult and juvenile sectors all seeing similar double-digit growth. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-lgbt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9145,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions\/9145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}