{"id":6483,"date":"2010-08-25T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2010-08-25T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:51:49","slug":"is-an-app-by-any-other-name-still-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6483","title":{"rendered":"Is an App by any other name still a book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for dropping off this <strong><a title=\"Future of the App\" href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2010\/08\/the_future_of_the_app.html\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to a thought-provoking story over at <strong>futureofthebook.org<\/strong> entitled: &#8220;<strong><em>the future of the app<\/em><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy at first pass to see this discussion as mere semantics until you really open yourself to the developments that are piling up around and in front of us.\u00c2\u00a0We&#8217;re entering strange territory indeed as the eBook Revolution introduces a future where familiar things like <em>books<\/em> become unrecognizable.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent piece of writing by Bob Stein and well worth the visit. Take the leap <strong><a title=\"Future of the book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2010\/08\/the_future_of_the_app.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Jorgen for dropping off this link to a thought-provoking story over at futureofthebook.org entitled: &#8220;the future of the app.&#8221; It&#8217;s easy at first pass to see this discussion as mere semantics until you really open yourself to the developments that are piling up around and in front of us.\u00c2\u00a0We&#8217;re entering strange territory &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6483\">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":[5,6,12,15,14,16,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483"}],"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=6483"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6492,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}