{"id":4371,"date":"2012-02-27T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2012-02-27T10:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:41:34","slug":"ebooks-the-giant-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4371","title":{"rendered":"Ebooks: The Giant Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mondaynote.com\/2012\/02\/26\/ebooks-the-giant-disruption\/\">Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Filloux:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In the last twelve months, I\u2019ve never bought fewer printed books \u2014 and I\u2019ve never read so many books. I have switched to ebooks. My personal library is with me at all times, in my iPad and my iPhone (and in the cloud), allowing me to switch reading devices as conditions dictate. I also own a Kindle, I use it mostly during Summer, to read in broad daylight: an iPad won\u2019t work on a sunny caf\u00e9 terrace.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care about the device itself, I let the market decide, but I do care about a few key features. Screen quality is essential: in that respect the iPhone\u2019s Retina Display is unbeatable in the LED backlit word, and Kindle e-ink is just perfect with natural light. Because I often devour at least two books in parallel, I don\u2019t want to struggle to land on the page I was reading when I switch devices. They must sync seamlessly, period, even with the imperfect cellular network. (And most of the time, they do.)<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m an ebook convert. Not by ideology (I love dead-tree books, and I enjoy giving those to friends and family), just pragmatism. Ebooks are great for impulse buying. Let\u2019s say I read a story in a magazine and find the author particularly brilliant, or want to drill further down into the subject thanks to a pointer to nicely rated book, I cut and paste the reference in the Amazon Kindle store or in the Apple\u2019s iBooks store and, one-click\u2122 later, the book is mine. Most of the time, it\u2019s much cheaper than the print version (especially in the case of imported books).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Filloux: In the last twelve months, I\u2019ve never bought fewer printed books \u2014 and I\u2019ve never read so many books. I have switched to ebooks. My personal library is with me at all times, in my iPad and my iPhone (and in the cloud), allowing me to switch reading devices as conditions dictate. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371"}],"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=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}