{"id":5185,"date":"2010-03-26T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:43:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:43:43","slug":"is-it-time-to-re-invent-the-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5185","title":{"rendered":"Is it time to re-invent the eBook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for pointing us to a <strong><a title=\"Do we deserve more in an eBook?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6723753.html?desc=topstory\" target=\"_self\">post<\/a><\/strong> by R. David Lankes at the <em><strong>School Library Journal<\/strong><\/em> titled: &#8220;<strong><a title=\"The shape of eBooks to come.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6723753.html?desc=topstory\" target=\"_self\">Ereaders, the iPad\u00e2\u20ac\u201dIs That All There Is<\/a><\/strong>?&#8221; Seems Lankes was under-impressed by the recent launch of iPad. (And it sounds like\u00c2\u00a0he was none-too excited by the eBook Reading Devices that were already on the market.)<\/p>\n<p>None of his discontent has to do with the machines themselves. He accepts that they perform admirably as viewers for digitized avatars of earth-bound volumes. His desire, it seems, is to see the actual eBooks re-invented. So far, he contends, we&#8217;re missing an opportunity to redefine among other things: How they display, what they contain and how we interact with them.<\/p>\n<p>Lankes makes some excellent points, but I&#8217;m afraid he&#8217;ll have to be patient. He&#8217;s describing\u00c2\u00a0the future of the eBook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Jorgen for pointing us to a post by R. David Lankes at the School Library Journal titled: &#8220;Ereaders, the iPad\u00e2\u20ac\u201dIs That All There Is?&#8221; Seems Lankes was under-impressed by the recent launch of iPad. (And it sounds like\u00c2\u00a0he was none-too excited by the eBook Reading Devices that were already on the market.) None &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5185\">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\/5185"}],"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=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5193,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions\/5193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}