{"id":5720,"date":"2010-10-19T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2010-10-19T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:50:08","slug":"gone-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/5720","title":{"rendered":"Gone in&#8230; Five Years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death of the printed word is not a new debate. Kindles and smartphones are seizing market share from the publishing industry&#8217;s literal page-turners. As Nicholas Negroponte argues, that will be the end of the book as we know it in five years. His interview with CNN [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/innovation\/10\/17\/negroponte.ebooks\/index.html\">available online<\/a>] details why he believe why the traditional printing press will quickly become a relic before our current junior high students make it to college.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Think that the book will actually die that soon [if at all]?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ronna for sharing the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of the printed word is not a new debate. Kindles and smartphones are seizing market share from the publishing industry&#8217;s literal page-turners. As Nicholas Negroponte argues, that will be the end of the book as we know it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/5720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[178,202,3167,3166,100],"class_list":["post-5720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-books","tag-e-books","tag-e-readers","tag-kindles","tag-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}