{"id":4966,"date":"2013-02-06T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T18:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T18:12:20","slug":"what-is-a-book-in-the-age-of-the-ipad-an-interview-with-craig-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4966","title":{"rendered":"What is a book in the age of the iPad? An interview with Craig Mod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.theverge.com\/2013\/2\/6\/3836234\/what-is-a-book-in-the-age-of-the-ipad-craig-mod-interview\">Sam Byford<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Craig Mod is a writer and designer who splits his time between Japan and the US. Formerly of Flipboard, much of his writing is concerned with ebooks and digital publishing \u2014 the pitfalls the industry falls into, and how best to avoid them. His most recent essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/craigmod.com\/journal\/subcompact_publishing\/\">Subcompact Publishing<\/a>, sparked a lot of online chatter last November over its vision for a minimal, service-oriented publishing future. I sat down with Mod in December during his latest stopover in Tokyo to talk about these ideas, Japan, and more.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Byford: Craig Mod is a writer and designer who splits his time between Japan and the US. Formerly of Flipboard, much of his writing is concerned with ebooks and digital publishing \u2014 the pitfalls the industry falls into, and how best to avoid them. His most recent essay, Subcompact Publishing, sparked a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966"}],"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=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}