{"id":318,"date":"2013-11-27T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/27\/e-books\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:17:43","slug":"e-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/e-books\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-book, eBook or ebook? Difficult to answer, as I&#8217;ve seen so many different versions of the word; however, I would say that there is probably an imperceptible shift towards the word ebook. Whatever the spelling used, I am still finding it difficult to accept that books should be read on small plastic contraptions. By the way, has anyone noticed that the word <i>ebook<\/i> looks a bit like <i>chook<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Despite my misgivings and despite the fact that I still feel that a book is a physical, sensory thing, I am being persuaded to consider the possibility of offering <i>The Space in Between<\/i> as an ebook.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6YDahep382o\/UpZ_D200VhI\/AAAAAAAABC0\/tQWE89jx5dw\/s1600\/chook2.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6YDahep382o\/UpZ_D200VhI\/AAAAAAAABC0\/tQWE89jx5dw\/s200\/chook2.png\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>I have to accept that there are now a lot of people who will not read anything that cannot be downloaded to a plastic contraption, so I am throwing up my hands in defeat. At the moment, I am reformatting the text to comply with ebook regulations &#8211; a demanding and frustrating task &#8211; and will, in all probability be able to offer the book as a digital option in the very near future. So, dust off your contraptions and get ready to push the download button. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-book, eBook or ebook? Difficult to answer, as I&#8217;ve seen so many different versions of the word; however, I would say that there is probably an imperceptible shift towards the word ebook. Whatever the spelling used, I am still finding it difficult to accept that books should be read on small plastic contraptions. By the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/e-books\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}