{"id":2689,"date":"2006-12-03T19:22:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2006-12-03T19:22:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T19:22:14","slug":"books_and_the_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"Books and the Future of Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2006\/11\/30\/books-publishing-internet-tech-media_cx_mm_mn_books06_1201book_land.html?partner=links\">Michael Maiello and Michael Noer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Are books in danger?<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe conventional wisdom would say yes. After all, more and more media&#8211;the Internet, cable television, satellite radio, videogames&#8211;compete for our time. And the Web in particular, with its emphasis on textual snippets, skimming and collaborative creation, seems ill-suited to nurture the sustained, authoritative transmission of complex ideas that has been the historical purview of the printed page.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nBut surprise&#8211;the conventional wisdom is wrong. Our special report on books and the future of publishing is brim-full of reasons to be optimistic. People are reading more, not less. The Internet is fueling literacy. Giving books away online increases off-line readership. New forms of expression&#8211;wikis, networked books&#8211;are blossoming in a digital hothouse.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Maiello and Michael Noer: Are books in danger? The conventional wisdom would say yes. After all, more and more media&#8211;the Internet, cable television, satellite radio, videogames&#8211;compete for our time. And the Web in particular, with its emphasis on textual snippets, skimming and collaborative creation, seems ill-suited to nurture the sustained, authoritative transmission of complex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}