{"id":37805,"date":"2011-10-18T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-printed-book-as-seth-godin-wrote-recently-is\/"},"modified":"2011-10-18T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:22:00","slug":"the-printed-book-as-seth-godin-wrote-recently-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-printed-book-as-seth-godin-wrote-recently-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The printed book, as Seth Godin wrote recently, is a fetish of sorts, like an expensive watch: something we buy because we like to look at it, but something that is no longer really functional or necessary. In the end, that\u2019s likely to be a good thing, not a bad one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2011\/10\/05\/what-happens-to-books-when-the-kindle-is-free\/\">What happens to books when the Kindle is free? | Tech News and Analysis<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureof.biz\/\">mediafuturist<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>These fetish objects allow us to remember and retell the stories, the metaphors, we live by.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram&rsquo;s article doesn&rsquo;t take into account the revenue stream (tithe?) Apple has created through the percentage it takes on sale through the App Store and in-App purchases. Ingram doesn&rsquo;t see the whole ecosystem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The printed book, as Seth Godin wrote recently, is a fetish of sorts, like an expensive watch: something we buy because we like to look at it, but something that is no longer really functional or necessary. In the end, that\u2019s likely to be a good thing, not a bad one. What happens to books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9PL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}