{"id":4096,"date":"2009-12-17T15:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T20:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2009-12-17T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T20:19:05","slug":"empire-of-the-word-the-future-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4096","title":{"rendered":"Empire of the Word: The future of the book."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <strong><a title=\"The Agenda on the Book...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tvo.org\/cfmx\/tvoorg\/theagenda\/index.cfm?page_id=3&amp;action=blog&amp;subaction=viewpost&amp;blog_id=323&amp;post_id=11637\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to a Canadian public television (TVO) program called <strong><em>The Agenda with Steve Paikin<\/em><\/strong>. I watched the episode last night, and felt it was worth passing the link along.\u00c2\u00a0The entire program is<strong> <\/strong><a title=\"The Future of the Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tvo.org\/cfmx\/tvoorg\/theagenda\/index.cfm?page_id=3&amp;action=blog&amp;subaction=viewpost&amp;blog_id=323&amp;post_id=11637\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for you to view, and there are posts to pick through.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of experts wondered whether the eBook Revolution spelled the end\u00c2\u00a0for the book. I found it quite informative. (Even if I did disagree with the formula that digital content always drops in price to zero. I think that&#8217;s only true if you charge too much for digital goods in the first place.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a Canadian public television (TVO) program called The Agenda with Steve Paikin. I watched the episode last night, and felt it was worth passing the link along.\u00c2\u00a0The entire program is here\u00c2\u00a0for you to view, and there are posts to pick through. A panel of experts wondered whether the eBook Revolution spelled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4096\">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":[3,4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096"}],"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=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}