{"id":696,"date":"2014-10-24T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/?p=696"},"modified":"2014-10-24T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T10:11:07","slug":"from-papyrus-to-pixels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"From papyrus to pixels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The growth rate of e-books has recently slowed in many markets. Publishers now expect most of their sales to remain in print books for decades to come &#8211; some say for ever.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of reasons. One is that the print book is &#8222;a really competitive technology&#8220;: it is portable, hard to break, has high-resolution pages and a &#8222;long battery life&#8220;. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2b\/Bookshelf.jpg\" alt=\"bookshelf\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sales of e-readers, the most popular of which is the Kindle, are in decline. &#8222;In a few years&#8216; time, we will look back at e-readers and remember them as one of the shortest-lived of all consumer media devices.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Economist, October 11th 2014, p 47<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth rate of e-books has recently slowed in many markets. Publishers now expect most of their sales to remain in print books for decades to come &#8211; some say for ever. There are a number of reasons. One is that the print book is &#8222;a really competitive technology&#8220;: it is portable, hard to break, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,3,20,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG60H-be","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}