{"id":1537,"date":"2010-02-03T14:47:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2010-02-03T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:47:36","slug":"ipad-is-bringing-new-life-to-the-e-book-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/e-commerce\/ipad-is-bringing-new-life-to-the-e-book-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad is bringing new life to the e-book debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/urbintechnology.com\/2010\/01\/27\/apple-annonces-the-ipad\/\">Apple&#8217;s announcement of the iPad<\/a> and the Apple iBook store, people have been noticing the ongoing debate about e-books, e-readers and the ugly concept of DRM, which assumes that paying customers are thieves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2010\/02\/02\/bookim-dan-o\/\">Joining the fray, is is Stephen Green, also known as the Vodkapundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2010\/02\/02\/bookim-dan-o\/#comment-43\">Of course, I had join in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbintechnology.com\/2010\/02\/03\/ipad-is-bringing-new-life-to-the-e-book-debates\/\">Originally published at Urbin Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Apple&#8217;s announcement of the iPad and the Apple iBook store, people have been noticing the ongoing debate about e-books, e-readers and the ugly concept of DRM, which assumes that paying customers are thieves. Joining the fray, is is Stephen Green, also known as the Vodkapundit. Of course, I had join in. Originally published at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,5,30],"tags":[118,165,291,292,423,759],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baen-books","category-e-commerce","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-book","tag-ebook","tag-ebook-reader","tag-ipad","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-oN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}