{"id":5128,"date":"2010-09-24T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=5128"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:32:11","slug":"the-ebook-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2010\/09\/24\/the-ebook-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"The ebook bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT&#8217;s <em>Technology Review<\/em> magazine (the spiritual successor to <em>Wired<\/em>) has a blog article on how <a href=\"http:\/\/technologyreview.com\/blog\/mimssbits\/25783\/\">&#8220;The Death of the Book has Been Greatly Exaggerated&#8221;<\/a>. The article usefully, if somewhat loosely, punctures some of the ebook\/ereader hype.  It also points to the dangers of a long term lock-in&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;publishers have largely made it impossible, or at least difficult, to loan, trade or re-sell ebooks&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As with all such broad whole-market sales statistics, I&#8217;d like to see some fine detail.  What happens to the overall picture when we remove all Harry Potter and other series children&#8217;s books \/ cookery books \/ pulp romantic fiction from the 2008-2010 sales statistics, for instance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT&#8217;s Technology Review magazine (the spiritual successor to Wired) has a blog article on how &#8220;The Death of the Book &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2010\/09\/24\/the-ebook-bubble\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-general-observations","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}