{"id":861,"date":"2010-02-24T10:46:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2010-02-24T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:46:38","slug":"the-real-future-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/the-real-future-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Future of Books."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"first-letter\">L<\/span>ater in the year, we will also be creating a Hardboiled interactive  iPad version of the book <strong>complete with built in demos and video  tutorials<\/strong>. This ability to publish in innovative new formats and to work  with a small, focussed team on creating something that no one has done  played a huge part in deciding to publish with Five Simple Steps. ((Emphasis added.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Andy does succeed in <a href=\"http:\/\/forabeautifulweb.com\/blog\/about\/publishing_hardboiled_web_design\/\">publishing his new book as an iPad app<\/a> with demos and video tutorials, that will truly herald the future of books. Physical, typeset books have their place, but if you&#8217;re publishing something electronically, there ought to be a big, flashing sign demanding you use every advantage the medium affords. To do otherwise is no different than playing a radio broadcast on television or scanning a newspaper and calling it a website. ((I know I&#8217;m ignoring many reasons someone would intentionally choose to limit an electronic book to just words. I am suggesting only that the trend will be toward something we currently think of as an application but will ultimately be understood simply as a book published electronically.))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later in the year, we will also be creating a Hardboiled interactive iPad version of the book complete with built in demos and video tutorials. This ability to publish in innovative new formats and to work with a small, focussed team on creating something that no one has done played a huge part in deciding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[50,33,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}