{"id":5122,"date":"2010-03-21T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2010-03-21T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:21:08","slug":"a-few-words-on-the-future-of-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5122","title":{"rendered":"A few words on the future of eBooks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks <a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Jorgen<\/strong><\/a> for a link to a <a title=\"The future of eBooks\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/hardware\/?p=7738\" target=\"_self\"><strong>post<\/strong><\/a> by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at <strong>ZDNet<\/strong> entitled &#8220;<strong>The iPad will kill ebooks as we know them<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rather a gloomy piece, but it makes some good points while ignoring the vast market of readers who just want to read on a device. They&#8217;re happy with the eBook&#8217;s (book&#8217;s) special and unique qualities. The written word gives the reader a personal and intimate vacation from fielding telephone calls, skimming through movies, returning emails and playing music.<\/p>\n<p>There is a market for iPad, but it would be perilous to generalize about the preferences of people who enjoy reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Jorgen for a link to a post by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet entitled &#8220;The iPad will kill ebooks as we know them.&#8221; Rather a gloomy piece, but it makes some good points while ignoring the vast market of readers who just want to read on a device. They&#8217;re happy with the eBook&#8217;s (book&#8217;s) special &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5122\">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":[3,5,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122"}],"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=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5127,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}