{"id":3115,"date":"2011-09-03T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/09\/a-million-little-flipbacks\/"},"modified":"2011-09-06T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T19:58:32","slug":"a-million-little-flipbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/03\/a-million-little-flipbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Million Little Flipbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperspecs.com\/mainblog\/forward-with-the-flipbacks\/\" target=\"_blank\">from PaperSpecs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Going Forward with the Flipbacks<\/h1>\n<p>August 30, 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hodder &amp; Stoughton, a UK publisher, recently introduced a paperback book format that\u2019s the size of an iPhone. Called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipbackbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flipbacks<\/a>, the books are one-third the size of traditional books.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flipbackbooks.com\/images\/main.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re lightweight, feel nice in the palm of your hand and fit conveniently in a back pocket or purse. Some booksellers are already thinking of them as a great alternative to the e-reader \u2026 Flipbacks are always fully charged.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few titles have been published in the format so far: <em>The Other Hand by Chris Cleave; The Adventures of English by Melvyn Bragg; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carr\u00e9; Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde; A Million Little Pieces by James Frey; Misery by Stephen King; Liar\u2019s Poker by Michael Lewis; Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell; One Day by David Nicholls; My Sister\u2019s Keeper by Jodi Picoult; Piece of My Heart by Peter Robinson and Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Flipbacks have been launched in Spain, France and Australia to date with deals pending in Germany and Scandinavia.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperspecs.com\/mainblog\/forward-with-the-flipbacks\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at paperspecs.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from PaperSpecs Going Forward with the Flipbacks August 30, 2011 Hodder &amp; Stoughton, a UK publisher, recently introduced a paperback book format that\u2019s the size of an iPhone. Called\u00a0Flipbacks, the books are one-third the size of traditional books. They\u2019re lightweight, feel nice in the palm of your hand and fit conveniently in a back pocket [&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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","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=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}