{"id":7869,"date":"2011-01-28T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T15:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2011-01-28T10:52:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T15:52:22","slug":"ebook-readers-and-the-man-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7869","title":{"rendered":"eBook Readers and the Man Booker Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that the<strong> eBook Revolution<\/strong> has gone mainstream when judges for the esteemed <strong>Man Booker<\/strong> prize literary competition\u00c2\u00a0have been sent <strong>eBook Readers<\/strong> to streamline the process of wading through the more than 100 novels that are in the running. The <a title=\"Man Booker and eBooks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-12306173\" target=\"_self\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a> has a post on this earth-shaking development, as the prize organizers offered the eBook option to avoid sending tons of physical books.<\/p>\n<p>It remains an option, and the more hidebound among the judges can still request hard copies.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating development though, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that the eBook Revolution has gone mainstream when judges for the esteemed Man Booker prize literary competition\u00c2\u00a0have been sent eBook Readers to streamline the process of wading through the more than 100 novels that are in the running. The BBC has a post on this earth-shaking development, as the prize organizers offered the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7869\">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":[3,5,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869"}],"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=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7873,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}