{"id":10161,"date":"2012-01-05T10:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10161"},"modified":"2012-01-05T10:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:26:57","slug":"is-digital-content-a-reliable-source-of-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10161","title":{"rendered":"Is digital content a reliable source of information?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Is digital content reliable?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mobiledia\/2012\/01\/04\/e-book-editing-raises-questions-for-publishing\/\" target=\"_self\">Forbes<\/a><\/strong> raises some questions about the reliability of digital content in a post that suggests an author&#8217;s or publisher&#8217;s ability to instantly access and edit eBooks and digital content could undermine its validity as a source of accurate information.<\/p>\n<p>The non-fiction and eTexts that schools and universities use will mainly benefit by this ability to correct erroneous material. In terms of fiction and literature, the ability to &#8216;tweak&#8217; a novel until it is relatively free of errors is one thing, to change it to fit market expectations ceases to be the same kind of creative writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes raises some questions about the reliability of digital content in a post that suggests an author&#8217;s or publisher&#8217;s ability to instantly access and edit eBooks and digital content could undermine its validity as a source of accurate information. The non-fiction and eTexts that schools and universities use will mainly benefit by this ability to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10161\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10166,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions\/10166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}