{"id":2573,"date":"2010-09-06T10:04:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/09\/william-gibson-on-the-future-of-the-book\/"},"modified":"2010-09-15T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T18:07:15","slug":"william-gibson-on-the-future-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/06\/william-gibson-on-the-future-of-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"William Gibson On The Future Of The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2010\/09\/06\/william-gibson-on-the-future-of-book-publishing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>William Gibson On the Future of Publishing: Made to Order Books<\/h1>\n<p><em>By Steven Kurutz<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2010\/09\/06\/william-gibson-on-the-future-of-book-publishing\/\" title=\"Everett Collection\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-JV374_gibson_CV_20100903111645.jpg\" alt=\"Everett Collection\" height=\"249\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"165\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s no surprise that William Gibson is a prolific user of Twitter. The author of science-fiction classics like \u201cNeuromancer\u201d and \u201cSpook Country\u201d has long been interested in emerging technology. In recent years, Gibson has abandoned the speculative world of sci-fi to write thrillers set in the present-day. As he told an interviewer in 2004, \u201cFinding myself actually in the 21st century really makes want to write about the actual 21st century, which is stranger and more complicated than anything I would have been allowed to come up with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gibson\u2019s new novel, \u201cZero History,\u201d similarly explores modern culture, particularly the cult of consumerism and marketing. Speakeasy will publish a longer Q&amp;A with Gibson about his new book tomorrow. In the meantime, we wanted to get his take on a much-debated hot topic: the future of book publishing. As you might expect, Gibson had some interesting things to say on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2010\/09\/06\/william-gibson-on-the-future-of-book-publishing\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WSJ.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal William Gibson On the Future of Publishing: Made to Order Books By Steven Kurutz It\u2019s no surprise that William Gibson is a prolific user of Twitter. The author of science-fiction classics like \u201cNeuromancer\u201d and \u201cSpook Country\u201d has long been interested in emerging technology. In recent years, Gibson has abandoned the [&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-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","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=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}