{"id":1327,"date":"2010-03-05T08:29:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2010-03-05T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:36:13","slug":"the-future-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"The future of the book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pestering everyone I know with links to this article by Craig Mod so now it&#8217;s your turn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/craigmod.com\/journal\/ipad_and_books\/\">http:\/\/craigmod.com\/journal\/ipad_and_books\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically he agrees with (and makes much clearer sense about) my long-time thesis that the form of book is controlled by content and if we are to consider giving up the &#8216;printed book&#8217; we have to reconsider content before deciding the on a new delivery mechanism. He focuses on the iPad as the revolutionary new tool, and while I can&#8217;t disagree, it is really irrelevant. Information  publishing is past the point of no return and we need to loosen the shackles that paper and ink have imposed for several thousand years (I know, I know, but I included papyrus and stone and wax and whatever&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>These two slidesfrom his article take me right back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/1-webcomics\/icst\/icst-4\/icst-4.html\">Scott McCloud<\/a> who was fascinating me with this topic back in 2000:<\/p>\n<p>Scott McCloud&#8217;s &#8216;paths and trails&#8217;<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/1-webcomics\/icst\/map.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Craig Mod&#8217;s take on the paths and &#8216;infinite book&#8221; concept <\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><img src=\"http:\/\/craigmod.com\/images\/journal\/books_and_ipad\/ipad_chapters-435x323.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img src=\"http:\/\/craigmod.com\/images\/journal\/books_and_ipad\/ipad-offset-435x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Anyway a &#8216;must read&#8217; for anyone who loves book and reading but has never stopped to think about what a wonderfully versatile thing the book is&#8230; and why it must change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pestering everyone I know with links to this article by Craig Mod so now it&#8217;s your turn&#8230; http:\/\/craigmod.com\/journal\/ipad_and_books\/ Basically he agrees with (and makes much clearer sense about) my long-time thesis that the form of book is controlled by content and if we are to consider giving up the &#8216;printed book&#8217; we have [&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},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}