{"id":1358,"date":"2009-07-18T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2009-07-18T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T13:53:00","slug":"the_book_of_the_future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/18\/the_book_of_the_future\/","title":{"rendered":"the book of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editis.com\/pages_html\/video_possible02.htm\">this film<\/a> loads very very slowly but i think it&#8217;s the most exciting vision of the book of the future since Apple&#8217;s Knowledge Navigator in 1987.<br \/>\ninterestingly, the film also includes an elegant solution to the question of how (at least during this transitional period) bookstores might participate in the sales of ebooks.  note this idea is more practical in Europe where Amazon and other online retailers are not allowed to compete on price.<br \/>\nand for history&#8217;s sake here&#8217;s a link to the Knowledge Navigator <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=100196171226719096&#038;hl=en\">video<\/a> and Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knowledge_Navigator\">entry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this film loads very very slowly but i think it&#8217;s the most exciting vision of the book of the future since Apple&#8217;s Knowledge Navigator in 1987. interestingly, the film also includes an elegant solution to the question of how (at least during this transitional period) bookstores might participate in the sales of ebooks. note this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}