{"id":1047,"date":"2007-09-01T16:19:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T16:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2007-09-01T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T16:19:26","slug":"cory_doctorow_on_concentration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/01\/cory_doctorow_on_concentration\/","title":{"rendered":"cory doctorow on concentration,  copyright and the codex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hbpub.vo.llnwd.net\/o16\/torpodcast\/media\/tor_podcast_083107_cbr.mp3\">A very entertaining podcast<\/a> by SF writer, Net activist, and uber-blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craphound.com\/\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> covering copyright, concentration, print-on-demand, the future of the codex and more. The problem with electronic books, he suggests, is in part that they are extremely good at distracting you &#8211; you need &#8216;monkish, iron self-discipline&#8217; to read a long work online. Hence he suggests, one of the best things about the codex is precisely that it isn&#8217;t electronic &#8211; it can&#8217;t distract you with emails, phone calls, IMs, RSS and all the rest, and is therefore the best tool available to help a reader concentrate on a sustained piece of writing.<br \/>\nHe also talks about his new Creative Commons-licensed novel &#8211; though frustratingly he doesn&#8217;t go further into his thoughts around giving away free fiction.<br \/>\nDefinitely worth a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very entertaining podcast by SF writer, Net activist, and uber-blogger Cory Doctorow covering copyright, concentration, print-on-demand, the future of the codex and more. The problem with electronic books, he suggests, is in part that they are extremely good at distracting you &#8211; you need &#8216;monkish, iron self-discipline&#8217; to read a long work online. Hence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,404,549,1576],"tags":[2298],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attention","category-corydoctorow","category-ebooks","category-reading","tag-corydoctorow-ebooks-attention-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}