{"id":69,"date":"2005-02-02T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2005-02-02T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T18:05:12","slug":"incredible_shrinking_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/incredible_shrinking_book\/","title":{"rendered":"incredible shrinking book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nokia7200.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/Nokia7200.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" align=\"left\"\/> A couple morsels today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textually.org\/\">textually.org<\/a> lending credence to our theory that cellphones\/PDAs are the incubation niche for the eventual widespread adoption of ebooks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textually.org\/textually\/archives\/006959.htm\">One<\/a> on fashionable new casings Nokia is bringing out for mobile devices (re Kim&#8217;s leather-bound <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/fantasy_ebook_1.html\">fantasy ebook<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textually.org\/textually\/archives\/006944.htm\">Another<\/a> on plans by Chinese tech giant <a href=\"http:\/\/216.239.39.104\/translate_c?hl=en&#038;u=http:\/\/www.lenovogrp.com\/&#038;prev=\/search%3Fq%3DLenovo%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D\">Lenovo<\/a> to embed &#8220;mobile book software technology&#8221; into phones, allowing users to read fully illustrated books, as well as watch movies, listen to audio, play video games, and browse periodicals. Mobile phones are emerging, at least in China, as the ultimate mass-consumer media processor &#8211; affordable and eminently portable. And each year, notebook computers become lighter, sleeker, and easier to tote around. Are they just shrinking into palm pilots? How much serious work can you get done on a palm pilot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple morsels today on textually.org lending credence to our theory that cellphones\/PDAs are the incubation niche for the eventual widespread adoption of ebooks. One on fashionable new casings Nokia is bringing out for mobile devices (re Kim&#8217;s leather-bound fantasy ebook). Another on plans by Chinese tech giant Lenovo to embed &#8220;mobile book software technology&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1187,1849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microlit","category-the-ideal-device"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}