{"id":203,"date":"2008-10-28T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T16:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-10-28T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T16:50:03","slug":"contemplating-books-in-the-digital-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/2008\/10\/28\/contemplating-books-in-the-digital-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplating Books in the Digital Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/10\/28\/authors-and-publishers-associations-settle-with-google-over-125-million-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\">new agreement<\/a> in a $125 million lawsuit by the Author&#8217;s Guild against Google\u00a0 would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials via Google&#8217;s Book Search. \u00a0 This, along with several other new developments, raises a persistent question about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\" target=\"_blank\">future of the book<\/a> in the digital era.\u00a0 With the recent endorsement by pop culture icon Oprah of the Kindle,\u00a0 has prompted some to suggest that the e-book reader may go <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2008\/10\/24\/with-oprahs-endorsement-kindle-goes-mainstream\/\" target=\"_blank\">mainstream<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whether or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/how_do_you_want_to_read.html\" target=\"_blank\">not people want to read books<\/a> delivered via electronic delivery devices remains to be seen, as there is still considerable resistance to the format.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In his article, <em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstmonday.org\/issues\/issue6_6\/lynch\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World,&#8221;<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstmonday.org\/issues\/issue6_6\/lynch\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>Clifford Lynch argues that the literal translation of entire books to digital devices is less likely than the emergence of new genres of texts created specifically for digital devices.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I doubt that the book will go the way of the card catalog, but this is certainly a moment for contemplating the place of the book in the digital era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new agreement in a $125 million lawsuit by the Author&#8217;s Guild against Google\u00a0 would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials via Google&#8217;s Book Search. \u00a0 This, along with several other new developments, raises a persistent question about the future of the book in the digital era.\u00a0 With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}