{"id":1646,"date":"2009-04-15T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2009-04-15T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:42:09","slug":"ebook-101-for-new-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"eBook 101 &#8211; For New Recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I don&#8217;t want those in the know to be offended, but there is a <strong>HUGE<\/strong> and <strong>CURIOUS<\/strong> group of people out there searching the Internet with a lot of questions. (The mainstream?) And they&#8217;re\u00c2\u00a0coming to eBook Rumors for answers. (The smart ones anyway&#8230;<em>yah<\/em>?)<\/p>\n<p>It is still\u00c2\u00a0so very early in the technology. Word travels far and fast these days, but\u00c2\u00a0everyone is so busy it takes time to absorb the news. Those of us who have been in for a while rooting around for information might easily\u00c2\u00a0forget that the vast majority of web surfers\u00c2\u00a0are just starting to ask the question, &#8220;eBook, what&#8217;s an eBook?&#8221; And others still: &#8220;What in the hell would I do with one of those?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The people at Pocket-lint.com have been kind enough to run over the basics <a title=\"eBook 101\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/news\/news.phtml\/23543\/Pocket-lint-quick-guide-ebook-readers.phtml\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. For the early adopters, forgive the recap, for new members to the eBook Revolution, <strong>welcome<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I don&#8217;t want those in the know to be offended, but there is a HUGE and CURIOUS group of people out there searching the Internet with a lot of questions. (The mainstream?) And they&#8217;re\u00c2\u00a0coming to eBook Rumors for answers. (The smart ones anyway&#8230;yah?) It is still\u00c2\u00a0so very early in the technology. Word travels far &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1646\">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":[3,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"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=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}