{"id":6964,"date":"2010-10-18T10:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2010-10-18T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T15:19:56","slug":"ebooks-to-dominate-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6964","title":{"rendered":"eBooks to Dominate the Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a <strong><a title=\"The end of the paperback?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/innovation\/10\/17\/negroponte.ebooks\/index.html?hpt=T2\" target=\"_self\">CNN<\/a> <\/strong>story and video where author <strong>Nicholas Negroponte<\/strong>, founder of <a title=\"One Laptop Per Child\" href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>One Laptop per Child<\/strong><\/a> suggests the end of the &#8216;physical&#8217; book is nigh. He makes some excellent points about the practicality of loading an entire library into devices and taking them to remote locations, and I believe that the eBook&#8217;s portability and functionality will make it the dominant force in future publishing.<\/p>\n<p>However, there will always be a market for &#8216;physical&#8217; books&#8211;as long as it&#8217;s profitable, and as long as there are hard cover and paperback aficionados. I can imagine special editions and quality print runs for book lovers on your Christmas list. There is room for the new and the old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a CNN story and video where author Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop per Child suggests the end of the &#8216;physical&#8217; book is nigh. He makes some excellent points about the practicality of loading an entire library into devices and taking them to remote locations, and I believe that the eBook&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6964\">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":[3,8,12,15,14,16,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964"}],"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=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6973,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}