{"id":10248,"date":"2012-01-20T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T20:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10248"},"modified":"2012-01-20T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T20:22:26","slug":"friday-ebook-revolution-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10248","title":{"rendered":"Friday eBook Revolution Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <strong><a title=\"SOPA vote postponed...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/01\/20\/us-usa-congress-internet-idUSTRE80J10X20120120\" target=\"_self\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong> the American Congress has postponed the Monday vote on flawed anti-piracy legislation (<strong>SOPA &amp; PIPA<\/strong>) that provoked the Internet to strike. (Us too&#8230;) The shelved legislation could have seriously hampered the Internet&#8217;s architecture and freedoms, and started a shift of power back to the old status quo. (It would have impacted the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> too.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"eBooks Author launched by Apple.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebookmagazine.co.uk\/creating-books-with-apples-ibooks-author-is-a-doddle\/20122198\" target=\"_self\">eBookMagazine<\/a><\/strong> has the scoop on <strong>Apple&#8217;s iBooks Author<\/strong> publishing tool released yesterday at an &#8216;Education Event&#8217; in the Guggenheim.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Apps and eBooks kill Pop-Up books?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/01\/20\/do-tablet-apps-and-ebooks-spell-the-end-of-pop-up-books.html\" target=\"_self\">The Daily Beast<\/a><\/strong> wonders if tablet Apps and eBooks mean extinction for Pop-Up books.<\/p>\n<p>And check out this <strong><a title=\"Enhanced eBooks = Passing Fancy?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/video\/asset\/enhanced-ebooks-next-frontier-or-passing-fad-2012-01-19\/C6B97950-5E0F-4EBD-9986-3FB1369FE4AF#!C6B97950-5E0F-4EBD-9986-3FB1369FE4AF\" target=\"_self\">MarketWatch<\/a><\/strong> video that speculates on the future of <strong>Enhanced eBooks<\/strong>. Are they the future or a passing fancy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Reuters the American Congress has postponed the Monday vote on flawed anti-piracy legislation (SOPA &amp; PIPA) that provoked the Internet to strike. (Us too&#8230;) The shelved legislation could have seriously hampered the Internet&#8217;s architecture and freedoms, and started a shift of power back to the old status quo. (It would have impacted the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10248\">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":[3,4,5,8,12,15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248"}],"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=10248"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10257,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions\/10257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}