{"id":4478,"date":"2010-01-26T12:39:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2010-01-26T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:42:34","slug":"is-the-apple-tablet-coming-wednesday-or-the-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4478","title":{"rendered":"Is the Apple Tablet coming Wednesday, or the Messiah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about living up to your hype. <strong>The Apple Tablet<\/strong> (pad, slate, take your pick) certainly has a high bar waiting for it. After months and months of rumor, the &#8216;rumors&#8217; have it that\u00c2\u00a0we&#8217;ll finally meet the device <strong>January 27th<\/strong>. For some reason, I suppose it&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0iPhone&#8217;s amazing capabilities and growing ubiquity, everyone\u00c2\u00a0is\u00c2\u00a0predicting drastic change once Apple&#8217;s rumored Tablet takes center stage.\u00c2\u00a0We&#8217;ve even got the <strong><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0suggesting the Tablet&#8217;s impact on top of the ongoing eBook Revolution &#8220;will be a seismic change in the literary culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <em><strong>Times<\/strong><\/em> opinion piece <strong><a title=\"Tablet or Second Coming...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oe-akst24-2010jan24,0,7707882.story?track=rss\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;s a fascinating if predictable read. Almost, one could suggest, a well-ordered reiteration of everything the Internet has been saying about eBooks and the devices that read them\u00c2\u00a0for the last year, or so.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s the big day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about living up to your hype. The Apple Tablet (pad, slate, take your pick) certainly has a high bar waiting for it. After months and months of rumor, the &#8216;rumors&#8217; have it that\u00c2\u00a0we&#8217;ll finally meet the device January 27th. For some reason, I suppose it&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0iPhone&#8217;s amazing capabilities and growing ubiquity, everyone\u00c2\u00a0is\u00c2\u00a0predicting drastic change once &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4478\">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":[5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478"}],"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=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}