{"id":3871,"date":"2011-01-04T07:43:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T07:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2011-01-04T07:43:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T07:43:27","slug":"e-book_pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3871","title":{"rendered":"E-book pioneer sees future of reading as a shared activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/portal\/site\/SCMP\/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0\/?vgnextoid=56c651f96ab4d210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&#038;ss=Other&#038;s=Life\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In 1992, virtual eons before the Kindle and the iPad, Bob Stein created software that let a reader flip through an electronic book on a laptop computer.<br \/>\nTo demonstrate the program at conferences, Stein would lie down on stage as if reading in bed.<br \/>\n&#8220;Publishers would see this and they would think it was cute, but they didn&#8217;t think it had anything to do with them,&#8221; he recalls.<br \/>\nNow that the revolution is here, Stein says publishers should embrace what he sees as the inevitable result: the evolution of reading from a solitary pursuit into a communal, electronically networked activity &#8211; something he calls social reading and writing.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/portal\/site\/SCMP\/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0\/?vgnextoid=56c651f96ab4d210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&#038;ss=Other&#038;s=Life\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In 1992, virtual eons before the Kindle and the iPad, Bob Stein created software that let a reader flip through an electronic book on a laptop computer.<br \/>\nTo demonstrate the program at conferences, Stein would lie down on stage as if reading in bed.<br \/>\n&#8220;Publishers would see this and they would think it was cute, but they didn&#8217;t think it had anything to do with them,&#8221; he recalls.<br \/>\nNow that the revolution is here, Stein says publishers should embrace what he sees as the inevitable result: the evolution of reading from a solitary pursuit into a communal, electronically networked activity &#8211; something he calls social reading and writing.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,23,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871"}],"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=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}