{"id":2331,"date":"2010-03-08T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/03\/good-riddance-to-print\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:30:38","slug":"good-riddance-to-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/08\/good-riddance-to-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance To Print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/05\/a-former-book-designer-says-good-riddance-to-print\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\">Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance to Print<\/h2>\n<address class=\"byline author vcard\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/nick-bilton\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"url fn\" title=\"See all posts by NICK BILTON\">NICK BILTON<\/a><\/address>\n<p>\t\t<!-- The Content --><\/p>\n<p class=\"w480\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/03\/05\/technology\/bits-booksipad\/bits-booksipad-blogSpan.jpg\" alt=\"A series of book examples\" \/><span class=\"credit\">craigmod.com<\/span> <span class=\"caption\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"w480\"><span class=\"caption\">Craig Mod discusses a series of book \u201cinterfaces\u201d that could make the transition from print to digital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/craigmod.com\/journal\/ipad_and_books\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent blog post<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/craigmod.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Mod<\/a>, a self-titled computer programmer, book designer and book publisher, offers a thoughtful and distinctive perspective on the move of books from paper to interactive devices like <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.com\/ipad\" target=\"_blank\">Apple\u2019s iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mod summarizes his argument in the subtitle of his post: \u201cPrint is dying. Digital is surging. Everyone is confused. Good riddance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mod divides content broadly into two categories: content where the form is important, such as poetry or text with graphics, and content where form is divorced from layout, which he says applies to most novels and non-fiction.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of thinking makes a key point: instead of arguing about pixels versus paper, as many book lovers tend to do, it is more useful to focus on whether the technology is a good match for the content.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/05\/a-former-book-designer-says-good-riddance-to-print\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance to Print By NICK BILTON craigmod.com Craig Mod discusses a series of book \u201cinterfaces\u201d that could make the transition from print to digital. A recent blog post by Craig Mod, a self-titled computer programmer, book designer and book publisher, offers a thoughtful and distinctive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}