{"id":14108,"date":"2008-12-15T13:24:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=14108"},"modified":"2008-12-15T13:37:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T17:37:47","slug":"tokyopop-confirms-additional-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tokyopop-confirms-additional-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"TOKYOPOP Confirms Additional Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYOPOP marketing director Marc Pavia has <a href=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/12\/more-layoffs-at-tokyopop\/\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed for Publishers Weekly<\/a> that TOKYOPOP laid off 8 employees last week. These latest layoffs come a week after TOKYOPOP laid off 7 employees the week before, and 39 employees last June. The cuts come in response to drastically declining sales in the American publishing industry. Pavia emphasized, &#8220;Tokyopop is still in business, and we are still focusing on our core business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Drastic sales declines have been hitting all of America&#8217;s anime\/manga industry especially hard, necessitating layoffs from TOKYOPOP and other companies in the American anime\/manga industry.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2008-12-12\/manga-publisher-tokyopop-lays-off-eight-more-staffers\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYOPOP marketing director Marc Pavia has confirmed for Publishers Weekly that TOKYOPOP laid off 8 employees last week. These latest layoffs come a week after TOKYOPOP laid off 7 employees the week before, and 39 employees last June. The cuts come in response to drastically declining sales in the American publishing industry. Pavia emphasized, &#8220;Tokyopop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}