{"id":80963,"date":"2021-06-10T15:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T09:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=80963"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T09:44:46","slug":"end-to-centuries-of-tradition-oxford-university-to-close-down-its-printing-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/end-to-centuries-of-tradition-oxford-university-to-close-down-its-printing-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"End to Centuries of tradition: Oxford University to close down its printing arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80971\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-80971 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-10-at-13.14.27.jpeg\" alt=\"The closure of Oxuniprint\" width=\"1280\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-10-at-13.14.27.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-10-at-13.14.27-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-10-at-13.14.27-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-10-at-13.14.27-600x314.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The closure of Oxuniprint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The centuries-old printing history of the Oxford University Press is coming to an end. It has been reported that the publishing house is closing down. The university\u2019s right to print books was recognised in a decree in 1586, and later enhanced in the Great Charter secured by Archbishop Laud from Charles I, entitling it to print \u201call manner of books\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to close Oxuniprint will be made in consultation with employees on August 27, 2021. 20 people will lose their jobs. The crisis was exacerbated by a series of declining sales and epidemics. Oxuniprint is the latest variant of the Oxford University Press. The curtain fell on a decades-long chapter in the history of Oxford University,\u00a0where the first book was printed in 1478, two years after Caxton set up the first printing press in England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the final chapter in a distinguished printing history at the OUP, but we feel that there could have been a different outcome if OUP bosses had not been hell-bent on pursuing their outsourcing agenda,\u201d said Unite regional officer Kevin Whiffen. \u201cThere is not much loyalty to the centuries-old printing heritage, and those who have given their working lives to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The centuries-old printing history of the Oxford University Press is coming to an end. It has been reported that the publishing house is closing down. The university\u2019s right to print books was recognised in a decree in 1586, and later enhanced in the Great Charter secured by Archbishop Laud from Charles I, entitling it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":80971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80977,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80963\/revisions\/80977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}