{"id":4226,"date":"2010-01-03T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T21:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2010-01-03T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T21:03:40","slug":"a-follow-up-to-yesterdays-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4226","title":{"rendered":"A follow up to yesterday&#8217;s link&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Jorgen<\/strong><\/a> has been kind enough to point us to a <strong><a title=\"The Internet is sundering the social connections...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/society-and-culture\/the-internet-is-sundering-the-social-connections-we-need-20100102-lmh8.html\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a><\/strong> at the <em><strong>Sydney Morning Herald<\/strong><\/em> that takes yesterday&#8217;s post regarding eBooks outselling &#8216;actual&#8217; books and runs with it.<\/p>\n<p>It brings in a number of disparate elements in an attempt to introduce us to one of &#8220;the most fundamental technical revolutions in human history.&#8221; The writer, Guy Rundle puts an extremely negative spin on things, and there&#8217;s no doubting his view of the eBook Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>There are dangers inherent in any cultural change, and people have a habit of overindulging before they find a balance. Unfortunately, that balance rarely happens as quickly as the technological changes.<\/p>\n<p>Heady stuff,<em> yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorgen has been kind enough to point us to a story at the Sydney Morning Herald that takes yesterday&#8217;s post regarding eBooks outselling &#8216;actual&#8217; books and runs with it. It brings in a number of disparate elements in an attempt to introduce us to one of &#8220;the most fundamental technical revolutions in human history.&#8221; The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4226\">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\/4226"}],"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=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4235,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions\/4235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}