{"id":1673,"date":"2010-01-27T14:53:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:53:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:53:01","slug":"a-revolution-in-reading-and-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"A revolution in reading and publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ipad-release.jpg' title='ipad-release.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ipad-release.jpg' alt='ipad-release.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And there you have it. Apple&#8217;s new iPad is everything we hoped it would be, except that Apple is staying with AT&#038;T for its Internet connection instead of moving to Verizon. All the iPad models will work on local wifi networks, though.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that the book publishing industry will now change very quickly. Apple did it right &#8212; agreements with a bunch of big publishers, a new iBook application, and support for the <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1568\">ePub<\/a> format, which democratizes publishing and makes it as easy to make and publish a book as to make a web site.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest surprise was the price. You can get one for as little as $499.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And there you have it. Apple&#8217;s new iPad is everything we hoped it would be, except that Apple is staying with AT&#038;T for its Internet connection instead of moving to Verizon. All the iPad models will work on local wifi networks, though. It seems to me that the book publishing industry will now change very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A revolution in reading and publishing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}